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Meaning of pyramid piano | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A piano that has its strings slanting upward from left to right in a case that is shaped like a tall isosceles triangle.

Examples

“The return of the pyramid piano dates from 1804 from the workshops of Wachtl and Bleyer, in Vienna. .”
“His known pieces include a pyramid piano in Vienna in the “Sammlung alter Musikinstrument", two grand pianos and this giraffe piano; they were all made in Bohemia.”
“Upstairs there was a pyramid piano — an instrument of peculiar shape and height, like a concert piano turned up against the wall.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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