I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a piano/guitar etc lesson
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I'd just started classical guitar lessons.
grand piano
piano accordion
piano bar
piano stool
piano/cello etc practice
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I’ve got to do my cello practice.
piano/orchestral/organ/guitar etc accompaniment
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He plays folk music with guitar accompaniment.
piano/organ music
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I love listening to piano music.
player piano
upright piano
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
classical
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Franco had classical piano lessons for eight years until he was sixteen, and was self-taught on trumpet from seventeen.
electric
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Piano, electric piano , synthesizers, composer. b. London, 16 Sept 1938.
grand
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I remember the first gig I went to in Cleveland, the grand piano was two feet too short.
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Say they will move your grand piano any day and do it on a bicycle.
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We rated the Sovetskaya, the hotel with the grand pianos , which was encouraging.
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The essential design of a grand piano , apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.
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What business had coal-miners with grand pianos and champagne?
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Her house had a bathroom, and a rose garden, and a grand piano in the front room.
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We were entertained first by a pair of talented young men playing two grand pianos .
old
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An old piano was cracked in the corner.
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There is a battered old Steinway piano in the hotel downstairs, and I have had one or two goes on it.
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It was much bigger than the old piano in the classroom.
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The Verona instrument therefore contains the oldest Stein piano we know, if the remembered date of 1777 is correct.
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He also uses a modern reproduction piano , which is a shade safer than Linda Nicholson's refurbished old piano.
upright
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There was an upright piano in the far corner with a row of framed photographs on top.
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There was an upright piano and a piano bench.
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An upright piano stood against one wall, a row of framed photographs on top of it.
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So was the upright piano , that is, it would be when I finished paying for it.
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The room contained two hard chairs, a desk and an upright piano .
■ NOUN
accompaniment
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We discussed the idea of Jean-Claude setting them to piano accompaniment .
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A piano accompaniment being captured in a London recording studio of 1904.
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She had a lovely sweet voice, and always had to sing without piano accompaniment , for she alone knew the songs.
accordion
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Noel Bridgeman's piano accordion takes over where Dooley Wilson's piano left off, and adds just the right ingredient.
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I've been playing the piano and the piano accordion for about 60 years.
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Normally a mouth organ or a piano accordion accompanies the music and plays the melody.
bar
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There is a bar , lounge, restaurant and late-night piano bar.
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A piano bar is open twice a week.
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Or, if preferred, have a snack in the piano bar .
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This quality hotel has a piano bar , and the bedrooms are tastefully appointed.
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A weekly gala dinner is held with folk music, and a piano bar provides music three times a week.
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A piano bar operates several times a week in high season.
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A piano bar is open once a week and in front of the hotel is a pool and sun terrace.
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There is an exclusive beach club, pool, tennis courts, restaurant, piano bar , nightclub, and beauty centre.
concerto
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In 1773 Mozart also wrote his first wholly original piano concerto .
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Geneva will hear all his piano concertos in seven concerts.
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He is a most distinguished Mozartian, and this year is recording all 27 of the piano concertos for Chandos Records.
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A Rachmaninov piano concerto swept through the flat, making the problem of Ruth trivial and vague.
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The six finalists then played two piano concertos each with the Fort Worth Symphony.
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In 1776 Mozart turned his attention to the piano concerto , writing four very different works.
lesson
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The never-say-die 69 year-old widower is also taking piano lessons for the first time.
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Why was Elinor in charge of Maisie's piano lessons ?
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I have piano lessons at school, but I can't play like you.
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At four o'clock he cycled to his piano lesson with Mr Gordon.
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Everything else was subordinated to it; piano lessons ceased, singing ones began.
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She now gave piano lessons , on a strictly limited basis, to suitable children.
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Maisie looked, as always, subtly different after her piano lesson .
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An unmusical person will be unable to progress beyond a certain point, nomatterhow many piano lessons he has.
music
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Some piano music tinkles gently in the background, a black Armani shirt clings softly to his chest.
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Some restaurants in the old town feature musical entertainment while you are dining, including fado and piano music .
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The effect of the sustaining pedal must always be most carefully taken into consideration when transcribing piano music .
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Excellent facilities include delightful restaurant and Clock bar with live piano music nightly.
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The following passages, taken from well-known or easily obtainable piano music , are suggested as exercises in scoring for string orchestra.
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In any case, he seemed to have lost interest in the piano music .
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Now we can choose from several complete sets of his piano music , and here is another.
stool
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But Maria was already back up to the piano stool .
teacher
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Danielle still plays, but the only money she makes from her talent is as a piano teacher in London.
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His new piano teacher , Mr Ruthling, was an actor on the side.
■ VERB
buy
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And so the day we bought the piano was memorable for many reasons.
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I might even have been able to buy the piano .
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But in 1783 he bought a piano by Walter, with a check.
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Many more of our customers now buy a piano for themselves.
hear
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Geneva will hear all his piano concertos in seven concerts.
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I heard his piano , so I assume he heard mine.
learn
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There's hundreds of variations you can come up with, but one thing that influenced me was learning piano in school.
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If you want to learn to play the piano or act, now is the time to put in the work.
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It was no different from learning the piano or the ukelele; it just needed practice.
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You would not create and focus the energy to quit smoking, diet successfully learn the piano , or revitalize a relationship.
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The girls and Branwell were learning to play the piano , and Branwell played the music in church.
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His ability to learn the piano came from his ancestors.
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That is one reason why I've just started to learn the piano .
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She made up for the difficulty by striking their fingers with a ruler when they erred, especially when learning the piano .
play
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The managers of the planning section talk loudly, because some one next door is playing the piano .
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You need more power to play the piano , but the harpsichord is about precision.
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When Mozart played a piano by Stein in 1777, it did not jangle, even though there was no check.
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We cook dinner while she plays the piano or reads the newspaper after work.
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Incidentally Ciccolini also plays several works for piano 4 hands, partnering himself by re-recording!
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If you want to learn to play the piano or act, now is the time to put in the work.
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One played the piano and the other the violin and they were quite celebrated.
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She played the piano for an hour every Thursday at a Northeast Austin retirement home.
sing
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Anne was playing the piano , and singing quietly to herself.
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My ideal night would be a group of friends sitting around the piano and singing .
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Everything else was subordinated to it; piano lessons ceased, singing ones began.
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And afterwards, she played the piano again and sang again.
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She would sit at the piano and sing .
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She had never sung ragtime on stage, she had always leaned against the piano and sung to Charlie.
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Mrs Lark played the piano and the children sang .
sit
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Instead of having a fit, it jumped up and sat on the piano , listening to the same music with great interest.
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One of the girls sat down at the piano .
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As well as speaking three languages, Danielle could listen to a tune, then sit at the piano and play it note perfect.
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You can sit down at the piano and play from this book.
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We sat round the piano with the candles in front of our music stands and played one of the trios we know best.
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Now; after the concerts, she and Edwin would sit at the piano , playing by ear what they had heard.
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She would sit at the piano and sing.
start
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Barron started on piano at twelve, studying with a sister of pianist Ray Bryant.
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She went in the house and started playing the piano .
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That is one reason why I've just started to learn the piano .
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My mum and dad bought me a piano when I started having piano lessons at the age of four and three quarters.
study
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Brackeen studied violin and piano in his youth.
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Uncle Vernon had paid for her to study the piano .
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Beck studied the piano at school but was largely self-taught.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
honky-tonk music/piano
mezzo forte/piano etc
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And, in any case, who can afford two pianos?
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It was just a man, a piano and some powerful lyrics.
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So he played gently enough not to make the hammers of Stein's pianos bounce up and hit the strings again.
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The startling image of a piano encircled by a wedding ring exemplifies the notion of affinities developed by Magritte from the 1930s.
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The Stick has got the same range as the piano and I can jump four octaves with one hand.
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There's hundreds of variations you can come up with, but one thing that influenced me was learning piano in school.
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There was an upright piano and a piano bench.
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To learn Chopin, I had been listening for more than three years to the piano of Tamas Vasary.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
bar
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When I graduated from music college, I began working at piano bars , while continuing to write at the same time.
bench
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Mavis said, sitting at the piano bench .
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There was an upright piano and a piano bench .
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Monk shares the piano bench with Horace Silver, a most extraordinary moment in jazz history.
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But she was advertising from the piano bench and specializing in private sessions to augment her income after her musical workday.
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The tea tray landed on the piano bench , and I set the empty Brown Betty pot teetering on the piano keys.
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We got five Little Flock hymnals out of the piano bench and picked out two songs.
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When she tires, she nods to her sister, who slides on to the piano bench next to her.
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Her sister plays until she can no more, and then another woman glides across the room and on to the piano bench .
lesson
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Individual singing lessons are also available, and a limited number of pupils can receive piano lessons at School.
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When he began taking piano lessons and identifying himself as a musician, I bought song sheets and music books for him.
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She listened, nodded, and then told me very shyly that all her life she had wanted to take piano lessons .
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Though the whole family sang, he prospered during the piano lessons he received as a birthday present at age 6.
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Wilson began piano lessons at age 9 and studied the standard classical repertoire of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
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Maybe if I had been sent to piano lessons instead of being sent out to play, I'd see things different.
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The children, she said, had piano lessons .
music
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The apparatus included a car that kept rolling in circles, an enormous block of ice and taped Chopin piano music .
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Live piano music ensures a festive feeling.
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When piano music joins the party, white-gloved hands dance over piano keys until both are lost in a swirl of color.
player
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He was a dancer, a piano player , and could mix in any society.
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But they are like the piano player at a bordello, always playing around the action, but never getting very close.
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She sang, drank Southern Comfort and argued with the piano player .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mezzo forte/piano etc