sostinente pianoforte

noun
variants: or less commonly sostenente pianoforte

Definition of sostinente pianoforte

: any of various keyboard instruments resembling the piano (such as the melopiano, piano-violin, or harmonichord) that contain a mechanism for prolonging the strings' tones

called also sostenente piano, sostinente piano, sustaining piano

First Known Use of sostinente pianoforte

1816, in the meaning defined above

History and Etymology for sostinente pianoforte

sostinente alteration of sostenente entry 1

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