grand piano
nounDefinition of grand piano
: a piano with horizontal frame and strings — compare upright piano
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The glittery gray Baldwin grand piano that Carole King once played during a visit to his office will stay. — Melinda Newman, Billboard, "Coda: Recording Academy Chief Neil Portnow Talks 'Step Up' Fallout, Boosting Diversity & Grammy Changes," 18 July 2019 Pregnant with their fourth child, Branson, who always makes the design decisions, had a tight deadline to decorate the main house, which has 12 bedrooms, a library with a billiard table, and a drawing room with an open fireplace and a grand piano. — Gisela Williams, ELLE Decor, "An Idyllic Hotel on a Remote Island Off Scotland That Inspired Peter Pan," 1 July 2019 The room also features a full walkaround bar and music niche designed for a grand piano. — Monica Lander, The Mercury News, "Sponsored: Spectacular Italian-style Eagle Ridge estate," 11 June 2019 And that place was jammed to the gills with Chinese export ceramics, midcentury modern furniture, American abstract paintings, a grand piano. — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, "Alexander Doherty on Creating a Colorful Manhattan Apartment with Character," 2 Nov. 2012 Drawings supplied by Epstein's architects to the U.S. Virgin Islands agency that oversees coastal development show that it was designed to be a haven for music: an octagonal 3,500-square foot pavilion housing a grand piano. — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, "Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre blue-striped building on private island raised alarm," 1 Aug. 2019 My mother loved folk music and my father loved classical music, so I was born into a home with a very busy record player, radio and a grand piano that my dad boomed and banged on late into the summer evenings. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Creating learning and growth with Guitars in the Classroom," 22 June 2019 Mathur likens it to how a grand piano and an electronic keyboard play the same notes despite their very different underlying mechanisms for producing sound. — Jennifer Ouellette, Quanta Magazine, "The Fuzzball Fix for a Black Hole Paradox," 23 June 2015 There were pinball machines and grand pianos, Yamahas and Steinways, in every house. — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, "‘Great Successor’ book excerpt: Kim Jong Un’s gilded boyhood of chefs, travel and lessons on ruthless rule," 6 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'grand piano.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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