square piano
Americannoun
noun
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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
Six hundred and fifty dollars seems a high price for a square piano, such as we used to buy for three hundred, and the "natural cost" of which does not much exceed two hundred dollars.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
The key in the square piano is subject to the same troubles as that of the upright, and requires the same treatment.
From Piano Tuning A Simple and Accurate Method for Amateurs by Fischer, J. Cree (Jerry Cree)
The parlour, with its hideous ornaments, seemed far preferable to the dingy room in the boarding-house, where the old square piano stood, thick with dust, and where Iris did her daily practising.
From The Master's Violin by Reed, Myrtle
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