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

In 1774, Catherine the Great ordered a square piano anglais — then the hot new instrument — from England.

From New York Times

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

From Project Gutenberg

Elinor was playing softly on the square piano between the front windows and Mary Price was reading a book.

From Project Gutenberg

It was an apartment that bespoke a keen though sober artistic taste: grey walls with violet silk curtains at the deep windows and two or three old paintings—among these, set on an easel, a Greuze that he had unearthed in a cobwebbed curio-shop in Italy—a plain desk with a strip of dull-coloured damask whose quaint Russian needle-work set off a few books in tooled leather—a square piano of Circassian walnut spread with an old brocade, against which a bowl of peonies splashed their fleshy crimson—and deep, comfortable chairs.

From Project Gutenberg

He turned to the square piano, sat down on its stool, and ran his fingers up and down the ivory keys.

From Project Gutenberg