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Noun
/pēˈanō/,
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pianos, plural;
  1. A passage marked to be performed softly

Adverb
  1. (esp. as a direction) Soft or softly


  1. a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
  2. used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly
  3. used chiefly as a direction or description in music; "the piano passages in the composition"
  4. (music) low loudness
  5. The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is widely known as one of the most popular instruments in the world. ...
  6. In music, dynamics normally refers to the volume of a sound or note, but can also refer to every aspect of the execution of a given piece, either stylistic (staccato, legato etc.) or functional (velocity). ...
  7. Piano is a 16-episode South Korean television drama, aired by SBS in 2001 and 2002.
  8. Piano , also released as Whisper Not, is an album by jazz pianist Wynton Kelly released on the Riverside label featuring performances by Kelly with Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, and Philly Joe Jones recorded in 1958. accessed February 26, 2010
  9. The Piano is a 1993 film about a mute pianist and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier New Zealand backwater. The film was written and directed by Jane Campion, and stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill and Anna Paquin. ...
  10. The Piano is the twenty-sixth album by Herbie Hancock.
  11. A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings; Soft. Used as a dynamic directive in sheet music in its abbreviated form, {p.}, to indicate lowering the volume of the music. ...
  12. (Pianos) 158 Ludlow Street - Manhattan - 212-505-3733 - Site - Map
  13. This specifies the additional cost to move a single 42-inch piano as part of the total household. This is not the cost to move the piano if that is the only item being moved
  14. To dream of seeing a piano, denotes some joyful occasion. To hear sweet and voluptuous harmony from a piano, signals success and health. If discordant music is being played, you will have many exasperating matters to consider. Sad and plaintive music, foretells sorrowful tidings. ...
  15. Soft. Piano is indicated by the marking: p
  16. A form of "air-band" playing style.
  17. (p) soft, pianissimo (pp) very soft, mezzopiano (mp) medium soft.
  18. dynamic marking meaning "soft"
  19. Storehouse or Ivories
  20. Italian dynamic marking for “soft”; keyboard instrument in which sounds are created by hammers striking strings when the corresponding keys are pressed.
  21. Count Basie, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson, Fats Waller
  22. A large keyboard instrument invented in the early 1700s by Bartolomeo Cristofori, with five principal components:
  23. an Italian word that means “softly” or “quietly”
  24. 1) Short for "Pianoforte", 2) Direction in written music that it should be played at low volume levels. The most ignored of all written directions in band music.
  25. or p (usually) – gently; i.e., played or sung softly (see dynamics)