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Definition of Piano action

1. Noun. Action consisting of a system of levers that move a felt hammer to strike the strings when a key is depressed.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Piano Action

Literary usage of Piano action

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

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"X.—Old piano action on the German principle of Escapement. ... 22) of an early square piano action in an instrument made by Johann Gottlob Wagner of Dresden ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Another piano action had, however, come into use about that ne or even earlier in Germany. The discovery of it in the ,to simplest form is to be attributed ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Another piano action had, however, come into use about that time or even earlier ... In Fredericks upright grand piano action that should suit the shallow ..."

4. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The illustration shows a piano action in which the invention is embodied as placed within an upright piano. i! ..."

5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"The illustration shows a piano action in which the invention is embodied as placed within an upright piano. и uiт M-STKM PI>II PIANO, 1878-1880. ..."

6. The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations: Catalogue by Mary Elizabeth Brown (1903)
"CRISTOFORI piano action, 1720. This model illustrates the action of the Cristofori ... MODEL OF piano action. Viennese Method. For example employing this ..."

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