(piano keys)
111player piano — noun a mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys • Syn: ↑mechanical piano, ↑Pianola • Hypernyms: ↑piano, ↑pianoforte, ↑forte piano * * * noun, pl ⋯ nos [count] : a piano that is played by a machin …
112Electronic piano — An electronic piano is a keyboard instrument designed to simulate the timbre of a piano (and sometimes a harpsichord or an organ) using analog circuitry. Electronic Piano was also the trade name used for Wurlitzer s popular line of electric… …
113forte-piano — noun a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑piano, ↑pianoforte • Derivationally related forms: ↑pianistic (for: ↑piano), ↑ …
114New Ross Piano Festival — The New Ross Piano Festival is an Irish festival of classical music which takes place annually in the County Wexford town of New Ross. The festival began in 2006 and features music for piano, whether as a solo instrument or as part of a chamber… …
115Transposing piano — A transposing piano is a special piano with a mechanism activated by the player (e.g. with a lever or pedal) to transpose. This mechanism allows the keyboard to change position in relation to the action (see Development of the modern piano for… …
116Bluin' the Black Keys — is a piano novelty composed by Arthur Schutt, an early jazz pianist and arranger. It was issued by Robbins Engel in 1926, and was one of the few published novelties issued by Arthur Schutt. Featuring extreme chromaticism and unusual syncopation… …
117upright piano — a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically. Cf. spinet (def. 1). * * * ▪ musical instrument musical instrument in which the soundboard and plane of the strings run vertically, perpendicular to the keyboard,… …
118dumb piano — noun : a portable keyboard for soundless piano practice and finger exercising * * * dumb piano noun A soundless keyboard for piano practice • • • Main Entry: ↑dumb * * * dumb piano, a contrivance having a set of keys like a piano and used for… …
119mechanical piano — noun a mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys • Syn: ↑Pianola, ↑player piano • Hypernyms: ↑piano, ↑pianoforte, ↑forte piano …
120Thumb piano — The African thumb piano is a musical instrument, a type of plucked idiophone, which is common throughout Subsaharan Africa. Thumb pianos in Africa usually consist of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys are attached. The instrument is… …
