Philadelphia, who "has invented one of the prettiest improvements in the forte-piano I have ever seen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.] Reference

Among the list of Professor Chua's "don'ts" during the rearing of her own children was allowing them to attend sleepovers; to get grades beneath an "A"; and to play any instrument other than the violin or piano no exclusion for the viola or forte-piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Steinberg: Chua, Baby] Reference

She must either have a forte-piano at home, or renounce learning it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.] Reference

She promised to give you now and then a lesson on the forte-piano; is she as good as her word?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.] Reference

Thus he wrote to Artaria in 1788: "I was obliged to buy a new forte-piano, that I might compose your clavier sonatas particularly well.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopin and Other Musical Essays] Reference

I lived on the old homestead, man and boy, and was married and had a family of children, for forty years and rising, when my wife would send my daughters to a fashionable school in Wetherville, to learn French and darning-work and the forte-piano.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Glauber-Spa] Reference