grand piano

plural grand pianos

1. entertainmentA large piano in which the strings are strung horizontally in a heavy frame shaped like a harp.

   A grand piano stood massively in a corner; with dark gleams on the flat surfaces like a sombre and polished sarcophagus.

   1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part III (Conclusion), page 653

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   This sofa, and a grand piano bearing a basket of faded roses, a biscuit-tin and a devastated breakfast tray, almost filled the narrow sitting-room, in the remaining corner of which another man, short, swarthy and humble, sat examining the lining of his hat.

   1912, Edith Wharton, The Reef, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company