street piano
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A city in Japan has decided to remove a street piano after officials concluded too many people were displaying poor manners while playing.
From BBC • May 1, 2023
What the street piano man wanted was pennies and five-cent pieces put in the monkey's red cap.
From The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Hope, Laura Lee
She, with her partner, danced down the whole wedding party; even the untiring street piano gave up, and their last spin was taken without music.
From Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Speed, Nell
The warm, wet smell of the freshly sprinkled streets, the whiff of an occasional cigar, the sound of a street piano in the next block, all seemed so strange yet so friendly and sociable.
From Mary Ware's Promised Land by Goss, John
I would perhaps have made a sharp anser, but a street piano outside began to play The Star-Spangled Banner.
From Bab: a Sub-Deb by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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