pianoforte

Example Sentences

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And in "Persuasion," Anne Elliot is a consummate musician but does not envy the more showy accomplishments of the Musgrove sisters who play the harp, while she is still on the old-fashioned pianoforte.

From Salon

But when Liszt was preparing to perform in London in 1840, an advertisement said that he would give “recitals on the pianoforte.”

From New York Times

"I have played blindman's-buff and caught the corner of a particularly hard pianoforte with my forehead."

From Salon

She would be married off after learning the basics of homemaking — and perhaps how to play the pianoforte — and learning to please her boss, I mean husband.

From Washington Post

His “great pleasure was to sit by the fireplace and listen to Julia as she played on the pianoforte,” Biskin wrote in her account.

From Washington Post