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What (who) is upright piano - definition
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
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![Musikinstrumenten-Museum]] in Leipzig](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/CristoforiPiano1726LeipzigKeyboardView.jpg?width=200 "Musikinstrumenten-Museum]] in Leipzig")
![Steinway]] Model 'A'. From lower left to upper right: main sounding length of strings, treble bridge, duplex string length, duplex bar (nickel-plated bar parallel to bridge), hitchpins, plate strut with bearing bolt, plate hole](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DuplexScale.JPG?width=200 "Steinway]] Model 'A'. From lower left to upper right: main sounding length of strings, treble bridge, duplex string length, duplex bar (nickel-plated bar parallel to bridge), hitchpins, plate strut with bearing bolt, plate hole")
![Estonia]] grand piano during the manufacturing process. The underside is facing upward, showing the thick beams that will support the rim and frame.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Estonia klaver 3.jpg?width=200 "Estonia]] grand piano during the manufacturing process. The underside is facing upward, showing the thick beams that will support the rim and frame.")
![[[Cast iron]] plate of a grand piano](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fluegel-Rahmen.jpg?width=200 "[[Cast iron]] plate of a grand piano")
![Grand piano by Louis Bas of [[Villeneuve-lès-Avignon]], 1781. Earliest French grand piano known to survive; includes an inverted wrestplank and action derived from the work of Bartolomeo Cristofori (ca. 1700) with ornately decorated soundboard.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Grand Piano 1781 France - Louis Bas.jpg?width=200 "Grand piano by Louis Bas of [[Villeneuve-lès-Avignon]], 1781. Earliest French grand piano known to survive; includes an inverted wrestplank and action derived from the work of Bartolomeo Cristofori (ca. 1700) with ornately decorated soundboard.")
![[[August Förster]] upright piano](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Klavier nah offen.jpg?width=200 "[[August Förster]] upright piano")
![The piano was the centrepiece of social life in the 19th-century upper-middle-class home ([[Moritz von Schwind]], 1868). The man at the piano is composer [[Franz Schubert]] (1797–1828).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Moritz von Schwind Schubertiade.jpg?width=200 "The piano was the centrepiece of social life in the 19th-century upper-middle-class home ([[Moritz von Schwind]], 1868). The man at the piano is composer [[Franz Schubert]] (1797–1828).")
![An upright pedal piano by [[Challen]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pedal piano 1.JPG?width=200 "An upright pedal piano by [[Challen]]")
![A440]] (yellow) highlighted.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piano Frequencies.svg?width=200 "A440]] (yellow) highlighted.")
![[[Steinway & Sons]] grand piano in the [[White House]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piano in Entrance Hall.jpg?width=200 "[[Steinway & Sons]] grand piano in the [[White House]]")
![piano tuner]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piano tuner.jpg?width=200 "piano tuner]]")
![1720 fortepiano by Italian maker [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]], the world's oldest surviving piano, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Pianoforte Cristofori 1720.jpg?width=200 "1720 fortepiano by Italian maker [[Bartolomeo Cristofori]], the world's oldest surviving piano, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City")
![Birthday party honoring French pianist [[Maurice Ravel]] in 1928. From left to right: conductor [[Oskar Fried]], singer [[Éva Gauthier]], Ravel (at piano), composer-conductor [[Manoah Leide-Tedesco]], and composer [[George Gershwin]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ravel Gershwin Leide-Tedesco002.jpg?width=200 "Birthday party honoring French pianist [[Maurice Ravel]] in 1928. From left to right: conductor [[Oskar Fried]], singer [[Éva Gauthier]], Ravel (at piano), composer-conductor [[Manoah Leide-Tedesco]], and composer [[George Gershwin]].")
![[[Piano pedals]] from left to right: [[una corda]], [[sostenuto]] and [[sustain pedal]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steinway grand piano - pedals.jpg?width=200 "[[Piano pedals]] from left to right: [[una corda]], [[sostenuto]] and [[sustain pedal]]")
![[[Stuart & Sons]] 2.9 m, 102-note piano](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Stuart & sons 2.9m 102-note piano.jpg?width=200 "[[Stuart & Sons]] 2.9 m, 102-note piano")
![<span style="font-size:90%;">[[Wurlitzer]] 210 electric piano</span>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wurlitzer210.png?width=200 "<span style=\"font-size:90%;\">[[Wurlitzer]] 210 electric piano</span>")
upright piano
(upright pianos)
An upright piano is a piano in which the strings are arranged vertically, rather than horizontally as they are in a grand piano.
N-COUNT
Piano
·adj ·Alt. of Pianoforte.
II. Piano ·adj & ·adv Soft;
- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (·abbr. p.).
grand piano
¦ noun a large, full-toned piano which has the body, strings, and soundboard arranged horizontally and in line with the keys and is supported by three legs.
Wikipedia
Piano
The piano is a keyboard instrument with strings struck by wooden hammers coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using its keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) touched by the performer with the fingers and thumbs of both hands, causing the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700.
Examples of use of upright piano
1. An upright piano, its veneer peeling, made only off–key noises when its warped keys were pounded.
2. "Piano Man" recently had an upright piano installed in his room at the secure north Kent mental health unit where he is being held and doctors have been considering using music and art therapy to try and communicate with him.
3. He recently had an upright piano installed in his room at the secure north Kent mental health unit where he is being held and doctors have been considering using music and art therapy to try to communicate with him.
4. My parents, for instance, once bought an old upright piano (a 1'th–century Steinway, with wonderfully ostentatious candle–holders and high Victorian latticework lined with green silk), from a friend whose musician mother had just died.
5. An upright piano was installed in his room at the secure mental health unit in Dartford where he was being held, and doctors considered using music and art therapy to try and communicate with him.