fortepianoes

English

Noun

fortepianoes

  1. (archaic, rare) plural of fortepiano
    • 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 644:
      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.
    • 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:
      JOHN 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.
    • 1804 December 26, Fr. Aug. Wagler, advertisement, in The Maryland Gazette‎, number 3024, Annapolis, Md., published 1804 December 27:
      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.
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