square piano

American  

noun

1. a piano with a rectangular, horizontal body.

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square piano British  

noun

1. music an obsolete form of piano, horizontally strung and with an oblong frame

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Example Sentences

The rooms were filled with art and rare antiques, including a 1790 square piano.

From Time Magazine Archive

Actors and actresses in long gowns, high collars and tails move about a realistic drawing room replete with chandelier and an old-fashioned square piano; in another room a dining table is set for 16 people.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through an open doorway an old square piano was visible in what must be the parlor.

From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston

Give two causes for defective damping in a square piano.

From Piano Tuning A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs by Fischer, J. Cree (Jerry Cree)

Pianos of that period were shaped like the modern grand, the first square piano being built by Freiderica, an organ builder of Saxony, in 1758.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various