Pronunciation

How is Giuoco piano supposed to be pronounced? (I know the piano part.)

I'm Italian-American myself and speak a little Italian.

It's:

Ghee-OHHH-ko Pee-AHHH-no

Jee Okay.

(piano)

What??!

That's how they say it in Milan.

Naples style pronunciations are frowned upon as being sun-dried-tomatoes.

What about at Pizza parlours in Aberdeen?  That's more my style brah.

JOCK-oh-peeAH-no I'd say .... though I'm not of Italian extraction (unlike my dentist Signor Machiavelli). I don't know why there is a 'u' in that word, I'd have said 'gioco' was the more usual spelling. 

Giuoco is an archaic Italian spelling.

I learned it as gw-AY-ko piano.Or, CHOKO Piano.

It's spelled Giuoco and it's definitely along the lines of what johnmuscha said. "Jock-oh" would not be correct at all. Although ilikecapablancas is probably the worst I ever heard 

I notice the English and especially BBC accented people horribly mispronounce Italian surnames.  The way the BBC pronounces "Joey Buttafuoco" is riotously funny (and wholly incorrect).

Speaking of, I heard that Amy Fischer is actually Bobby Fischer's "missing daughter" that was all over the press about ten years ago.

I've never heard of him. I imagine you're right, though :)

Oh yeah? Listen to Silvia http://www.forvo.com/word/gioco/

Nope.  That woman sounds a bit stunad'!  (And angry)

It's Giuoco anyway...

Okay. Try this:

http://www.forvo.com/word/giuoco/#it

Having listened have changed my mind.

"Jew Occo" is correct & bet JM is enthralled by that.

that's how I had thought it was pronounced

I disagree.  It's not a hard "g" as in "ghee" or "ghibli".  it is a soft "g" as in the english word "gee" or the italian names "giugiaro" and "giuseppe".  silvia has it right, although non-italian speakers would not enunciate it as distinctly.

That's what I meant, like Giuseppe, Ghee-ooh-sepp'e.  I know my own mother language, brohans