1.A piano, especially of the kind made in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
‘Of uncertain origins, he was one of the community of émigré musicians who made an itinerant orchestral career in Britain, playing a variety of wind and string instruments, the fortepiano, and the cittern.’
‘The piano teacher gives all lessons on an early fortepiano that has a knee lever for operating the damper mechanism.’
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‘Of uncertain origins, he was one of the community of émigré musicians who made an itinerant orchestral career in Britain, playing a variety of wind and string instruments, the fortepiano, and the cittern.’
