pianoforte
- n a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
- Herr Schalk accompanied sections of the Don Giovanni on a harpsichord, that ancient ancestor of the pianoforte which Mozart himself loved for its faint and delicate tinkle.
- A flying hint from here and there has lately indicated that the prestige of the pianoforte is failing.
- Sixteen candles, divided eight and eight in two towering candelabras, flanked, on the stage of Aeolian Hall, Manhattan, the sleek black bulk of a pianoforte.