Piano.
typically Italian but in French and German also... think of the origin of the composers
The word piano is borrowed from the Italian word pianomeaning quiet. The musical instrument is a shortened form of another Italian word; pianoforte meaning "both soft and loud". This name comes from the piano's remarkable ability to play both very loudly and very softly.
Well, the most obvious step in the words etymology is from "piano", the instrument which a pianist plays. The suffix -ist means "one that does". So lets look at the etymology of the word "piano" instead. Piano is the shorted form of "pianoforte", which comes from the Italian "piano e forte", meaning "soft and loud", because the piano was an instrument that whose tone was either soft or loud, depending on how it's played. If you look at sheet music the terms "piano" and "forte" are still used to indicate how you should be playing that portion of the piece.
le piano I play the piano = Je joue du piano
Piano Jouer du piano - to play piano
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No, "piano" is not plural. "Piano" is the singular form, and "pianos" is the plural form
on the piano
In printed sheet music, the staves of the piano is denoted by the abbreviations either Pno. or Pf. On the other hand, the word 'piano', itself is an abbreviated word from the real name for the instrument pianoforte. The word comes from Italian origin. The two words are; 'piano' which means soft, and 'forte' which means loud. Among the mechanic keyboard instruments, the pianoforte is known as the instrument which has the sustainability for a longer time and it is the such instrument which a player can be attained massive crescendos, decrescendos, sforzandos etc with ease in comparison to earlier keyboards such as the harpsichord and clavichord.
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