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I laugh every time I hear her swank out the syllables, “He bought each Momma / a platinum piana / a gold-lined kimona / and a diamond-studded Hispana.”
Living With Music: A Playlist by Liesl Schillinger - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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August 12, 2009 at 5:03 am itteh bitteh piana committee
Introducing….. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I laugh every time I hear her swank out the syllables, “He bought each Momma / a platinum piana / a gold-lined kimona / and a diamond-studded Hispana.”
Living With Music: A Playlist by Liesl Schillinger - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Trying to appeal to women with women's voices, images of children, or — God help us — tinkling piana music, is not playing the gender card.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Trying to appeal to women with women's voices, images of children, or — God help us — tinkling piana music, is not playing the gender card.
<a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/11/they-all-play-gender-card-and-hillarys.html" title="They all play the gender card... and Hillary's playing it well Ann Althouse 2007
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She struck the chords of her piana-forte in beautiful accompaniment, and towards the close of the second stanza, her voice resting on one note, swelled into a tone so exquisite, and from thence descended to a few simple notes, which she touched with such impassioned tenderness that every eye wept to the sounds.
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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Ferdinand played the violoncello, Vereza the German flute, and Julia the piana-forte, which she touched with a delicacy and execution that engaged every auditor.
A Sicilian Romance 2004
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But I'm jist feared to lat ye hear me lay a finger upo 'the piana, for it's little I cud do wi' my fiddle, an ', for the piana!
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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'Whan I'm able to play upo' the fiddle as weel 's ye play upo 'the piana, I'll come and play at yer window ilka nicht, as lang 's ye like to hearken.'
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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It was something to hear the twa o 'them playing thegither, him on the fiddle -- that verra fiddle o' 's father's 'at ye hae i' yer han '-- and her on the piana.
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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