piano forte
Eighty-eight keys
Piano forte is an older term for the piano, the keyboard instrument whose strings are struck by hammers.
The name comes from the instrument's ability to play both soft (piano) and loud (forte) depending on how firmly the keys are pressed—a major innovation over the harpsichord.
Now usually shortened to simply piano.
- concert hallsVenues for musical performances
- baby grandMid-sized stringed keyboard
- loudHigh in volume
- fingeringNote-playing hand technique
- sheet musicPublished performance notation
music theory · keyboard · soft · soft pedal · Baroque era · pedaling · fortepiano · arpeggios · sustain · sonatas · scales · chamber music · resonance · symphonies · dynamic range · virtuosity · timbre · phrasing
piano forteharpsichord
Plucked-string keyboard instrument
mechanical piano · clavichord · organ · celesta · player piano
piano forteharpsichord
Plucked-string keyboard instrument
virginal · spinet · pipe organ · electronic keyboard · synthesizer
piano fortepianissimo
Extremely quiet, in scores
fortissimo · mezzo forte · piano · forte