Quiet chanteuse not loud? Certainly not (5)
I believe the answer is:
piano
'quiet chanteuse' is the definition.
'piano' can be an answer for 'quiet' (I've seen this before). I'm not sure about the 'chanteuse' bit.
'loud? certainly not' is the wordplay.
'loud?' becomes 'pia' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'certainly not' becomes 'no'.
'pia'+'no'='PIANO'
'not' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for piano that I've seen before include "entertain with this softly" , "Stringed instrument - to be played quietly" , "In music, soflty" , "In musical notation, this means softly" , "Soft - musical instrument" .)