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pianette|piːəˈnɛt|
Also pianet.
[f. piano n.2 + -ette.]
‘A very low pianino or upright pianoforte’ (Grove); orig. applied to a form introduced into England in 1857; subsequently to other small forms.
1879Webster Suppl., Pianette, a small piano-forte. 1887E. E. Money Dutch Maiden (1888) 89 ‘I can play any accompaniment you like’—glancing at the piannette in the corner. 1894F. A. Steel Potter's Thumb I. 127 The pianette at which Rose sang her Scotch songs. 1894G. B. Shaw How to become Mus. Critic (1960) 222 Excellent French pianets. 1897A. Beardsley Let. 7 Jan. (1971) 240 Don't feel bound in any way about the pianette. I'm afraid you expected a larger affair. Of course it is quite a small instrument. 1908G. B. Shaw Pen Portraits (1932) 80 Has Chesterton ever spent his last half-crown on an opera by Meyerbeer or Verdi, and sat down at a crazy pianet to roar it and thrash it through? |