1. A keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
   - pianoforte, forte-piano 
2. (music) low loudness
   - pianissimo

1. Used chiefly as a direction or description in music
   "the piano passages in the composition"
   - soft

1. Used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly
   - softly

Derived forms: pianos

See also: pianissimo, pianissimo assai, pianist, pianistic

Type of: keyboard instrument, percussion instrument, percussive instrument, softness, stringed instrument

Antonym: forte

Encyclopedia: Piano, Bass and Drums Piano Piano, Haute-Corse Piano, rumpu ja kukka Piano, Rumpu ja Kukka

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