Word Finder - piano

definition

A percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings

example

He can play "Happy Birthday" on the piano.

synonyms

• pianoforte

definition

Soft, quiet

definition

In extended use; quiet, subdued

She kept one hand on the singer's mouth, while the other rested on the piano, and she stood in this position as long as any one would sing to her, and afterward she would make a continuous sound which she called singing.

She had taken a few piano lessons at the Perkins Institution.

Ha, I think I'll leave the piano to you.

Sarah heard the piano playing very softly as she started down the stairs to make breakfast,.

She always liked to stand by the piano when some one was playing and singing.

The military doesn't buy their haircuts, website design, or piano lessons.

I expect to take piano lessons sometime....

Piano George said they lost two fine black horses that slipped on the ice of the Sneffles road and I could hear the men talking loudly about it.

Of these the "acoucryptophone" was one of the most elegant - a light box, shaped like an ancient lyre and suspended by a metallic wire from a piano in the room above.

Jackson rose from the piano and whispered to Elisabeth, "I'm going to take care of this once and for all."

Modern surveying ships no longer make use of hempen lines with enormously heavy sinkers, such as were employed on the " Challenger," but they sound instead with steel piano wire not more than 310 to 215 of an inch in diameter and a detachable lead seldom weighing more than 70 lb.

We shall treat only of the diatonic scale, which is the basis of European music, and is approximated to as closely as is consistent with convenience of construction in key-board instruments, such as the piano, where the eight white notes beginning with C and ending with C an octave higher may be taken as representing the scale with C as the key-note.

One definition, which is of especial value in the geometrical treatment of the conic sections (ellipse, parabola and hyperbola) in piano, is that a conic is the locus of a point whose distances from a fixed point (termed the focus) and a fixed line (the directrix) are in constant ratio.

A classic of early minimalism, in Piano Phase (1967) the two pianists begin by repeating a rapid figure in unison.

The Practice Room houses an upright piano and is ideal for individual practice.

She is currently conducting research using an upright piano, which she has been dismantling over a period of weeks.

A celesta just looks like a small upright piano, but the part can also be played on a piano.

Bronx born Roach is a multi instrumentalist of some note who plays vibes, piano, bass and drums.

I was responsible mainly for violin and piano tuition, but my position as String teacher also included teaching the viola and cello.

Franz Liszt was the greatest piano virtuoso the world has ever known.

A piano virtuoso with no identity staying in a English mental hospital.

Sam Lakeman's piano lines still ripple magically alongside Cara's ethereal vocals.

Sample companions include pet whippets, token Americans or mutes (remember, it worked for The Piano ).

There is a live piano lounge, which provides soothing tunes while you dine.

It's a largely conventional acoustic jazz piano set, recorded with Canadians Duncan Hopkins (bass) and Anthony Michelli (drums ).

Dana Feder's achingly beautiful cello counterpoint the vocals and piano, with subtle church organ riffing completing the mystical effect.

O ' Sailor's discordant piano riff sounds suitably creepy, but it might easily have sounded cartoonish.

The Wrigley Sisters Scotland UK BBC award winning fiddle, guitar and piano folk duo.

To get a taxi Gillespie economist and a piano lounge in calm waters.

A piano sound so elephantine it all but trampled over and squashed flat the entire ensemble, even when merely comping.

Here, acoustic guitar and bass, brushes and sparse piano create a melancholy evocation of memories of lost times and old friends.

Notes on a piano produce a fixed sound when played which do not go up or down but gradually fade away.

Even today the finest woolen fabrics, used for billiards tables, piano felts and Guardsmen's tunics are finished using natural teasels.

Her husband, knowing she could not play, shut the piano to avoid a fiasco.

Scott looked down at the manuscript on the piano, " still fiddling with this piece then ", he asked.

James Macmillan's ' Ballad ' adds modern piano figurations to an authentic-sounding vocal line and gets a compelling performance from James.

The concerto's dramatic slow movement shows piano and orchestra in stark opposition to each other and leads directly into the exhilarating finale.

The Lee Hall also has a full-size piano forte, which is available for use by all members.

And as you player harder, the sound switches to that of a piano being played mezzo forte or forte.

In the parlor the table is set for afternoon tea and there is a rosewood piano a sure sign of Victorian gentility!

Also Gurney had an open invitation to play the grand piano in the Redlands drawing-room.

There are facilities for rehearsal and practice, including a grand piano, and there is a good chapel choir.

We have a grand piano, recital and practice facilities, as well as the use of the Theater.

The comfortably furnished, L-shaped lounge/diner features a grand piano.

This results in the most convincing piano sample yet released, where the performance actually interacts with the soundboard like a real grand piano.

There is no age limit for learning to play the harp or piano.

Piano and strings add heft, but none of it comes off as overblown or pompous.

He is a pianist, organist, and viola player, and teaches piano improvisation.

Lawrence Ball's compositional heart is his piano improvisations numbering over 2000 recorded.

Flowing orchestral sounds and simple piano lines provide the backbone, while the occasional highlight is provided by short guitar interjections.