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What is a definition of a piano?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The word piano, by definition in Italian, means soft. The modern piano is actually called the pianoforte, meaning loud-soft in Italian. This is due to the wide range of volume which the modern piano can express.

Beethoven helped develop the modern piano to what it is today, for the piano's in his time (just called a piano, for they only had a soft range of sound) were not able to express the emotional variety required of his time (the romantic period).

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