Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An upright pianoforte.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mus.) A pianette, or small piano.

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  • noun music A pianette, or small piano.

Etymologies

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Italian

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Examples

  • It was a long haul to Jerry Church's hockshop, but Snim had a gold and pearl pocket-pianino up there and he was hoping to cadge Church into advancing another sovereign on it.

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

  • Kingston Hospital, the bitch Chooka Frood and her yellow-headed ghost girl, his pocket-pianino and the man who owned it.

    Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

  • Within the last few years we have seen the general introduction of Bord's little pianino, called in England, ungrammatically enough, pianette, in the action of which that maker cleverly introduced the spiral spring.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various

  • A pianino will do quite well, and I beg you most earnestly not to put yourself to any inconvenience for my things.

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • Chopin [she said] had always a cottage piano [pianino] by the side of the grand piano on which he gave his lessons.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Try to see Pleyel; tell him I have received no word from him, and that his pianino is entrusted to safe hands.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • The most popular songs were Chorna lubov (Black Love), Tyotya Lyuba (Aunt Lyuba), Nenavyzhu pianino (Hate the piano),

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • (Aunt Lyuba), Nenavyzhu pianino (Hate the piano), Rillya v ilyuminatori (Tillage in the window) etc.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • After having given His Holiness a small proof of my skill on the harmonium and on my work-a-day pianino, he addressed a few very significant words to me in the most gracious manner possible, admonishing me to strive after heavenly things in things earthly, and by means of my harmonies that reverberated and then passed away to prepare myself for those harmonies that would reverberate everlastingly. ”

    Letters Liszt, Franz 1893

  • (Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino; Неоконченная пьеса для механического

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

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