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grand piano

noun

  1. a piano having the frame supported horizontally on three legs.


grand piano

noun

  1. a form of piano in which the strings are arranged horizontally. Grand pianos exist in three sizes Compare baby grand boudoir grand concert grand upright piano


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Word History and Origins

Origin of grand piano1

First recorded in 1790–1800

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Example Sentences

She motions me in and reseats herself at a makeshift home office desk in her living room, sandwiched between a grand piano and set of enormous windows overlooking her front yard’s flower garden.

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Gary described the giant grand piano in the lobby of the hospital and how it almost looked like a hotel.

Julia Nixon’s classically trained voice is as enchanting with a 120-piece orchestra, a jazz trio or singing on a stool unplugged in the crook of a grand piano.

That’s why we ended up doing a slow country and western song, with him in a bath and me smoking downstairs playing an old grand piano.

In a worldwide tour, they performed on acoustic grand pianos in programs that ranged from original compositions to tunes by George Gershwin and classical composer Bela Bartok.

In the living room, a DJ booth has been erected and a baby-grand piano sits in the corner.

A splendid grand piano stands in one window (he receives a new one every year).

We had a large salle in the Hotel Bremen which was admirably proportioned, and a new grand piano from Berlin.

He took me to the house of a musical friend of his who was to lend me his grand piano, and there we tried our sonata.

From this room came the sounds of a grand piano and of the sweet voice of a girl singing a simple and pathetic ballad.

Among the conveniences of this hotel our friend had the pleasant surprise of finding a good grand piano.

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