Sentence examples for piano from inspiring English sources

"piano" is a perfectly correct and usable word in written English
It can be used to refer to a musical instrument, such as in the sentence "I love playing the piano." It can also be used to refer to the musical style or genre, as in "He loves playing jazz piano."

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piano

noun

A keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings.

  • The piano in his house takes up a lot of space.

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Its magic lay in its marriage of brass and piano, of rasping percussion, of the warmth of Ferrer's voice.

Also with them was Rafael Schächter, who organised many of the concerts and accompanied on piano, and the brilliant young Ancerl.

Those wishing to prise the coveted guestbook from the hotel's grasp will have to make do with trying to decipher the autographs scrawled on the piano which sits in the 24-hour private bar.

Without his puckish verve for disruption, it'd become a show about technical adequacy and endless piano ballads.

Born in Broadstairs, he began his education as a choral scholar at St Peter's, the local Church of England school, at seven he began piano lessons.

In fact, as Bogányi told me, form follows function in his piano, with even such details as the piano's legs being sculpted better to project sound into the auditorium.

That was one of the treats I got myself – I just wanted a fabulous piano.

Then again, it may not technically be a sample: James admitted that he doesn't know "what it ended up being in the end", and instead of using the original recording, West's collaborators may have re-recorded the piano part.

In recent years, he has collaborated with Björk, Paul Weller, Hot Chip and Brian Eno, continuing a relationship that began when he co-wrote 1/1, the piano track on Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports.

I remember in the car driving on Woldgate, I would play Glenn Gould's version of Franz Liszt's version of Beethoven's 5th Symphony on the piano.

The plodding Somewhere Like You piano chords give him plenty of room for melisma as a pyramid string section does some simple simpering.

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