Meanings
- archaicpluralrareplural of fortepiano
THE ſubſcriber reſpectfully informs the citizens of Annapolis, Eaſton, and the neighbouring country, or whom it may concern, that he intends to ſend for a few patent FORTEPIANOES, with additional keys, made by Aſtor.
1804 December 26, Fr. Aug. Wagler, advertisement, in The Maryland Gazette, number 3024, Annapolis, Md., published 27 December 18042 more examples
The following articles to be sold by Patrick Reynolds, in Fish Street. Fortepianoes, Guittars, Violins; with strings for each. Variety of new music, and good harpsicord wire. Bassoons and oboe reeds, fiddle pins and bridges.
a. 1773, advertisement, in Hibernian Chronicle, Cork: […] William Flyn, […]; quoted in John Nicholas Murphy, “Appendix I. A Cork Newspaper of One Hundred Years Ago”, in Terra Incognita or The Convents of the United Kingdom, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1873, page 644JOHN SHEYBLI, ORGAN-BUILDER, At Mr. Samuel Prince’s, cabinet-maker, in Horſe and Cart-ſtreet, New-York; MAKES, repairs and tunes all ſorts of organs, harpſichords, ſpinnets and Fortepianoes, on the moſt reaſonable terms.
1774 October 10, The New York Mercury, New York, N.Y.: Hugh Gaine; republished in Gillian B. Anderson, compiler, Freedom’s Voice in Poetry and Song, Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1977, →ISBN
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