pianoforte
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A trip to Paris to work for a family who needs a companion for their child leads to pianoforte lessons, but with no prospect of a public life as a musician.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
"I have played blindman's-buff and caught the corner of a particularly hard pianoforte with my forehead."
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2021
So the melodies remained intact, even when the arrangements became "lower and darker", as on the pianoforte rework of Never Gonna Give You Up.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2019
An accompanying pianoforte keeps frenetic pace with the singers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2016
Her eyes were too heavy to read, she wouldn’t play the pianoforte for fear of another embarrassing encounter, and she most certainly wouldn’t amuse herself with fantasies of what the feast was like.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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