The pianoforte is the most universal musical instrument of the civilized world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players] Reference

It is not easy to say which of his many compositions for the pianoforte are the most important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference

The open pianoforte was covered thickly with dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

Different parts of a pianoforte and their uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

He will not sing without a pianoforte accompaniment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

The concert ended by an improvisation on the pianoforte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference

Messrs. Broadwood London, pianoforte manufacturers, paid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882] Reference

The music within ceased; the lid of the pianoforte closed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love at Paddington] Reference

Presently the harmonious tones of a pianoforte were audible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference

Eight for my pianoforte is about what I really expected to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

A forerunner of the pianoforte also appeared in the harpsichord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Later in the morning I heard the tinkling of the parlor pianoforte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference

A lady friend assures us that it goeth well unto voice and pianoforte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Before long, she brought a little pianoforte and set it up in my drawing-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doll and Her Friends or Memoirs of the Lady Seraphina] Reference

I cannot bear a voice that has no more life in it than a pianoforte or bugle-horn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

Miss Rabbit at the pianoforte, he sat himself on a chair already occupied by Gertie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love at Paddington] Reference

Being a master of the pianoforte and a composer of rare talent, he can hardly be called sane.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference

To him Chopin dedicated his first trio for pianoforte, violin, and violoncello, published in 1833.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

The organ touch could now be made as light as that of a pianoforte, much lighter than ever before.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference

Hitherto his compositions had been chiefly for the pianoforte, but now his genius burst forth in song.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Work in Music] Reference

The 'Midsummer Night's Dream' music had just been published as a pianoforte duet, when Mr Samuel Reay, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

Is best known as the inventor of the "hammer system," and, therefore, the father of the modern pianoforte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference

He was testing her rather highly, since the pianoforte score of the suites in question was by no means easy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

He demanded absolute silence from conversation whenever he put his fingers upon the pianoforte keys to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

We found only Mrs. Lance at home, and whether she boasts any offspring besides a grand pianoforte did not appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference

But let us turn back and collect into another table the pianoforte works which are also attributed to the same epoch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference

I think this work will be ready in a few weeks, so you may expect the pianoforte edition at the beginning of February.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

But none of these breaches in the Englishman's castle-house can be made without a cannonade of books and pianoforte music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference

We have a pianoforte, and a German, who directs our orchestra, gives us lessons; he receives three hundred florins every year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

They have indeed latterly become a fashion; we collect them, arrange them with pianoforte accompaniments, listen to them at concerts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama] Reference

The large hall which you enter on arriving is fitted up as a dining-room, with a pianoforte, easy-chairs and two large writing-tables.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879] Reference

I wrote to him the day before yesterday, and expect the score with the pianoforte edition, which I will immediately send you to Dresden.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians] Reference

Two operettas, a piano concerto and a number of published pianoforte pieces and songs do little more than show how great was his promise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

We have, then, as the labor of three years, three grand pianoforte concertos with orchestra, six string quartetts, a quintett, a septett.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference

Aunt Horsingham's luckless pianoforte, and their brother, choking in his stiff white neckcloth, turned over the leaves, Sir Brian bantered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference

"MAfestival 2010" is an annual festival of harpsichord and pianoforte music, with performances by Frederick Haas, Gustav Leonhardt and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Off Europe] Reference