How To Use Grand piano In A Sentence
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The centrepiece of the pavilion was a grand piano designed by Ruhlmann and made from such exotic materials as amboyna wood and Macassar ebony.
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He gave me a gorgeous, black lacquer grand piano as a house-warming gift and for my wedding day he gave me a beautiful portrait of Billie Holiday.
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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Some of the country's finest opera singers perform nightly in the lounge, and each room is decorated with musical antiques, like a grand piano (suites from $381; mollies. co.nz).
The Kiwi Boutiques
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The pianist played several pieces of music on a grand piano.
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We were entertained first by a pair of talented young men playing two grand pianos.
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He still has the grand piano that he had when we were growing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The pianist played several pieces of music on a grand piano.
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In one corner resides an impressive grand piano, which has clearly seen a lot of use over the years.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sat down at the grand piano, right leg turned slightly to one side and with the mike stand in the centre of the keyboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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At one stage the pianist was plucking the strings of a grand piano to emulate a sitar.
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Sometimes it was a bit like watching a small man trying to wrestle a grand piano up a spiral staircase while playing the 1812 Overture.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are stuffed deer and buffalo on the walls, an ancient grand piano, and bubbly Polish receptionists.
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It's part of a fundraising push that will also see an internationally renowned pianist play the £11,000 grand piano at Swindon's New College.
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He squats beneath the grand piano in the living room, "shitting," says, "Poo can poo," as if he were still a toddler, then lifts his finger to his nose so he can sniff it.
Ruthless with Scissors
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I took the speaker and sat it on the sustain pedal of a grand piano so the strings were all open.
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The final programme tonight focuses on the Steinway grand piano.
Times, Sunday Times
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He gave me a gorgeous, black lacquer grand piano as a house-warming gift and for my wedding day he gave me a beautiful portrait of Billie Holiday.
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Once she was done with that she went to her grand piano and started to play it.
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Greene provides a clear, lengthy preface describing how to prepare ten strings of the grand piano with rubber erasers and wood screws.
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Sound example 8: Sound of a grand piano as recorded by a magnetic pickup attached to the strings (string sound alone), followed by the sound in the room, recorded by a microphone (4 notes each).
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He notes that grand pianos have faster, kick-action performance that is not found in a standard upright.
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The huge cinnamon and gold suite next door features a grand piano.
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I tend to like those pieces best where that weightiness is continued through to the end — Grand Pianola Music, Nixon, Naive and Sentimental Music.
Generalization of the day
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The deep mahogany of the grand piano surrounded and enveloped her plump figure.
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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Looking for a used grand or baby grand piano?
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How many of us knew there were still people who had real chandeliers that needed hanging by an expert or grand pianos that required tuning.
Times, Sunday Times
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And there were few overdubs; he was surrounded by a grand piano, a clavichord and a Fender Rhodes electric piano, and switched between them on-the-fly, as he did in concert.
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Frank once had me cut a piece of foam out and mount a Pignose amp on the harp of a Bosendorfer grand piano, pointing down to the soundboard in the piano.
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Less than a week later, Sam received another commission from the same gentleman; this time, to fix the pierced wooden fretwork of his grand piano, which had somehow sustained damage.
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The essential design of a grand piano, apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.
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Keys continue into the body of the piano for another twelve inches or so, making the entire key about eighteen inches long in upright pianos and smaller grand pianos, and almost two feet long in nine-foot grands.
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Meal for two, including drinks and service, £130Sitting in a corner by the bar at 34, the new restaurant from the group behind the Ivy and Le Caprice among others, is a box-fresh baby grand piano.
Restaurant review: 34
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The essential design of a grand piano, apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.
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He sat down at the grand piano, right leg turned slightly to one side and with the mike stand in the centre of the keyboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were to be accompanied by two grand pianos played by musicians, as well as three xylophones, four bass drums, a gong, three aeroplane propellers, seven electric bells and a siren.
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[Page 41] "Uppercross" the old-fashioned parlour is spoken of "with a small carpet and shining floor, to which the present daughters of the house were giving the proper air of confusion by a grand piano and a harp.
Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends
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A grand piano is shoehorned into the rectangular room, bay-fronted on to a hill of semi-detached houses on the south Essex coast.
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I have a saw in one hand, a grand piano in the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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To this end, their silvery sheen is further echoed by a grand piano that has been covered in silver leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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But partying aside, come and see the new and one-of-a-kind pieces that Tayzia's rezzed, including the El Catrin, a bass-relief painting located just behind the grand piano by Red Randt, the Multiple Bag of Secrets by Elros Tuominen, the amazingly built/textured Marat by AM Radio, as well as the Tree by Kalt.
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He chatted in between the songs telling jokes and relating weird stories, he drank beer too, he climbed on the grand piano, he threw flowers into the audience and he fell to his knees more often than a nun with a wonky knee.
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A large grand piano has less inharmonicity because the strings are longer relative to diameter.
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• Jan. 31: Dedicatorial recital, 11: 30 a.m. Sea Gull Cottage dedication; 1 and 3 p.m., dedicatorial recital of new Steinway grand piano featuring Robin Arrigo.
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And their most cherished possession is a grand piano that spent most of its long life 5,000 miles away.
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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the movers were very careful with the grand piano
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Contemporaneously with the spinet, and of almost equal antiquity, was an instrument in the form of a grand piano, called in Italy the clavicembalo, and in England the harpsichord.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present
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They include a bizarre grand piano, not only reconstructed by Philip Webb but in addition decorated by Kate Faulkner with playing-card pips, mottoes and whorls of gilt gesso-work.
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I have a saw in one hand, a grand piano in the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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A short distance away from us there was a grand piano being played softly by a woman in a green dress.
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Sometimes it was a bit like watching a small man trying to wrestle a grand piano up a spiral staircase while playing the 1812 Overture.
Times, Sunday Times
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She watched as three more workers lent a hand and got the grand piano off of the platform dolly and removed the layers of bubble wrap and shrink-wrap.
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In one corner resides an impressive grand piano, which has clearly seen a lot of use over the years.
Times, Sunday Times
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To this end, their silvery sheen is further echoed by a grand piano that has been covered in silver leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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As he was to do throughout the show, the pianist oscillated between the grand piano and Fender Rhodes, mostly playing the latter sparingly for soul, funk and blues-infusing colouration.
Jason Moran – review
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My biggest splurge has been a grand piano.
The Sun
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The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
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Sister hotel to the trendy Almyra, the Annabelle is a slightly more traditional property - all grand pianos and understated elegance.
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About 40 Steinways, including upright and grand pianos, were on sale to amateur musicians and experts hunting bargains.
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The vibe 1920s faded grandeur, complete with grand piano.
The Sun
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Moss, chocolate, mink, charcoal, biscuit and olive dominated the white expanse of winter for Grachvogel, as jazz drifted from a grand piano on the catwalk.
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But even as ‘Reservations’ winds down, what might have been a three-minute song stretches out to seven minutes of quiet, solemn, funereal feedback and synth wash with a grand piano comping widely spaced minor chords.
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I have seen one that has been made from a grand piano.
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He still has the grand piano that he had when we were growing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The girl next door had been playing her grand piano for the past two days.
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Robert, her youngest son, is hunched over the keyboard of the grand piano completely absorbed in the passion of the moment.
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It is only when you go through to the long, plant-filled conservatory dining room that you realise the music is being piped from a dinner-suited pianist at a grand piano.
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He still has the grand piano that he had when we were growing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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That guy who used to play a lidless grand piano was always right in front.
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In her spare time, the lawyer likes to do nothing better than knock out a few ditties from the Great American Songbook on her baby grand piano.
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Stanley had a great love of music and played a baby grand piano.
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The pianist had grand piano, harmonium, honky-tonk piano and celeste, and the percussionist had a range of tuned and untuned percussion.
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When police gave him a sheet of paper, he drew a grand piano.
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Cloistered in their enormous old mansion packed with ancient furniture and a grand piano hanging by ropes from the ceiling, this brother and sister draw Isabel deeper and deeper into their family's strange obsession.
Ron Charles reviews "Great House," by Nicole Krauss
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The curtains rose to a stage packed full of instruments and, in the centre, a magnificent grand piano.
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He still has the grand piano that he had when we were growing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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He runs his fingers over the top of the grand piano that sits in the middle of the room, with a book of Scottish songs propped up on the music rack.
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The grand piano has been replaced with a small, inelegant electric model.
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He had come back from the window, and was standing close to her, who, in the curve of her grand piano, was, as it were, embayed.
To Let
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I have a saw in one hand, a grand piano in the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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The essential design of a grand piano, apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.
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In one corner resides an impressive grand piano, which has clearly seen a lot of use over the years.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the spinet was of very small dimensions it was called a virginal; when it was in the shape of our modern grand piano, it was, of course,
Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University
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My biggest splurge has been a grand piano.
The Sun
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He still has the grand piano that he had when we were growing up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The essential design of a grand piano, apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.
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Canon Sue Whitehouse has been under fire over proposals by her and the church council to remove pews, raise part of the nave floor, install a nave altar and introduce a grand piano at St Andrew's Church in Aysgarth.
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Grand pianos became a currency or sorts as pauperized members of the civil service elites traded the symbols of their old status for a sack of potatoes and a side of bacon.
