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A pianoforte is a piano: the big keyboard instrument whose strings are hit by hammers. The long Italian name means, roughly, “soft-loud.” That was the point of the new instrument in the 1700s: unlike a harpsichord, it could play very quietly and very strongly, and everything in between, depending on the player’s touch. In everyday English almost nobody says pianoforte now; they say piano. You still meet the full word in older writing, in formal concert notes, and in the history of the instrument. It names the thing itself, not a special kind of piano different from the one in the living room.
鋼琴(全名;台灣日常只說「鋼琴」,不會說 pianoforte)
組成Borrowed from Italian pianoforte: piano (soft) + forte (loud, strong).
同家族的字
- pianothe short modern name; also Italian “soft,” the first half of pianoforte
- forteItalian “loud,” the second half; also a music mark
- pianistthe person who plays this instrument
- pianissimoshares Italian piano, “soft”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pianofortenoun/piˌænəʊˈfɔːteɪ/
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datedentertainmentlifestylemusicA piano.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。