Piatti

Piatti may refer to:

The Piatti scooter, a motor scooter of the 1950s
Carlo Alfredo Piatti, 19th Century Italian cellist
Pablo Piatti, Argentinian football player
An old but still extant Austro-Venetian noble family, members of which bear the titles Margrave or Count von Piatti. From Milan they migrated to the Venetian Republic, becoming courtiers at the Holy Roman Empire's capital, Vienna. Counts as early as 1022, they obtained the marquisate of Bismantua in 1644 and the Austrian Empire confirmed their comital title in 1841.^[1]
In older music scores, piatti is the Italian term for cymbals

References

↑ Enache, Nicolas (1999). La Descendance de Marie-Therese de Habsburg, Reine de Hongrie et de Boheme. Paris: Laballery. pp. 230–231, 238. ISBN 2-908003-04-X.

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