Kadar Wrote:It's piano.
That's a lot of Kanji's (what are kanji's called in Chinese, btw? Never cared to learn the languge...Love the history, but I hate the commies and how they tried to erase that history...And for invading poor, innocent Tibet. ;_
for a simple word like "Piano". Though, in all fairness, "piano" is actually the compressed form of its full name, "Pianoforte", which is derived from its original name in Italian which is a four-word long name that means "Harpsichord with soft and loud" (Piano = Soft, Forte = Loud, if you know your musical
Nomenclature [there's that word! xD ]).
Perhaps that is what all the characters are for. They all mean "Harpsichord with Soft and Loud"? =p
What is Harpsichord in Italian, btw? I should look that up to get the original name of the piano... Aha! "Clavicembalo [or gravicembalo] col piano e forte". Hooray for Wikipedia! LoL