Piano
Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)
Alt. of Pianoforte
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Piano Quotations
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Oscar Wilde
If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
Harry S. Truman
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
James Whistler
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope
My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!
Etta James
See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.
John Fahey
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
Jon Bon Jovi
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
Joan Didion
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand.
Twyla Tharp
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of fell apart. One thing lead to another and I was unable to practice as much as I wanted to.
Geddy Lee
Piano Translations
piano in Afrikaans is klavier, piano
piano in Dutch is klavier, piano
piano in Finnish is piano
piano in French is piano
piano in German is Klavier
piano in Hungarian is piano, zongora, halkan
piano in Italian is pianoforte
piano in Norwegian is piano
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