pianoforte

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Over the years, they have pursued Baroque music, on Silbermann-model period-style pianofortes made for them and with the ensemble Il Giardino Armonico; ragtime; traditional Basque music; and jazz.

From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2020

The bookkeeper, who in all his years around pianofortes had never seen one with a man in it, called the police.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bach had to play on the numerous newly invented pianofortes of Silbermann which the king had bought, and also to try the organs of the churches of Potsdam.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

It was the pianofortes of his manufacture in the palace at Potsdam, which Frederick the Great made Bach try, one after another.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

And so she trudged the country, giving music lessons to the daughters of tradesmen and of colliers who boasted pianofortes.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)