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upright piano

American  

noun

  1. a piano with an upright rectangular body and with its strings running vertically.


upright piano British  

noun

  1. a piano which has a rectangular vertical case Compare grand piano

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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One of the exhibition's most striking exhibits is Winifred Atwell's battle-scarred upright piano.

From BBC Apr. 14, 2026

A soft-faced teenage boy with flaxen hair playing the upright piano while a small orbit of youth-group girls gathered nearby.

From Salon Mar. 15, 2026

Instrument involved: A Kingsbury upright piano, which was one of the first things moved into the renovated space.

From Seattle Times Jan. 6, 2023

When he was 8, his parents mortgaged their small house and bought Lewis a used upright piano.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 28, 2022

At the wedding, on a brown upright piano in the church, she’d put a big picture of her dad.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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