Lexic.us

Definition of Piano

1. Noun. A keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds.

2. Adjective. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music. "The piano passages in the composition"

3. Adverb. Used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly.

4. Noun. (music) low loudness.

Definition of Piano

1. a. & adv. Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

2. n. A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a series of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys.

Definition of Piano

1. Noun. (musical instruments) A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings. ¹

2. Adjective. (music) Soft. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, ''{p.}'', to indicate lowering the volume of the music. In the pianoforte this is done by pressing the instrument's keys more lightly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Piano

1. a musical instrument [n -NOS]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piano

pianism pianisms pianissimi pianissimo pianissimos pianississimo pianist pianist's cramp pianiste pianistes

pianistic pianistically pianistics pianists piano (current term) piano accordion piano accordions piano action piano bench piano damper

piano keyboard piano keys piano lesson piano maker piano music piano nobile piano percussion piano player piano players

Literary usage of Piano

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"piano players, Mechanical—Continued Remote controlled electric piano for picture theaters, il Sei Am 113:523 D 11 '15 piano playing Chord playing. H. Wells. ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Being the Sixth Volume of the by George Grove, Waldo Selden Pratt, Charles Newell Boyd (1920)
"'Mankind's Own Song/ for three-part women's chorus and piano ... At fourteen he went to Leipzig to study piano under Reinecke and ..."

3. Folio (1885)
"The Great piano Book of the Day. The following communications from two of ... The following editions of the above published for piano, iVc. ..."

4. Lakmé: Opera in Three Actsby Léo Delibes, Philippe Gille, Edmond Gondinet, Theodore T. Barker by Léo Delibes, Philippe Gille, Edmond Gondinet, Theodore T. Barker (1890)
"RICHARD FRENCH piano MUSIC FRENCH piano MUSIC GERMAN piano MUSIC GERMAN piano MUSIC EARLY ITALIAN piano MUSIC 0 0 0 m A Ni/t . ..."

5. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"Stephanie Album for Mandoline and piano. SCORE AND PART. Grenadier Guards March. Nazareth. ... Lieder ohne Worte, for piano Solo. Books 5 and 6. No. 24. ..."

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