baby grand

Compact concert instrument

A baby grand is a small grand piano, typically under six feet long.

It preserves the horizontal string arrangement and wing shape of a concert grand but fits in living rooms and smaller spaces.

They squeezed the baby grand into the corner of the apartment.

size

compact

Tightly packed together

petite · scaled-down · miniature · studio · intimate · proportioned

instrument

keyboard

Array of input keys

  • keysLock-operating instruments
  • ivoriesPiano keys, informally
  • pedalFoot-operated lever

strings · hammers · soundboard · lid · bench · damper · sustain · tuning · octaves · chords

elegance

luxurious

Marked by costly elegance

gleaming · lacquered · ebony · mahogany · rosewood · walnut · ornate · heirloom · showpiece · centerpiece

performance

recital

Solo musical performance

  • concertLive musical performance
  • concertoSolo-and-orchestra composition
  • sonataMulti-movement instrumental composition

nocturne · rhapsody · ballad · improvisation · virtuoso · maestro · accompanist · repertoire · encore · cadenza

composers

Chopin

Polish Romantic pianist-composer

  • MozartEighteenth-century Austrian composer
  • BeethovenGerman classical music giant
  • BachGerman composer surname

Debussy · Liszt · Rachmaninoff · Gershwin · Schubert · Brahms · Schumann · Ravel · Joplin · Ellington

Categories
Opposites
piano size and type

baby grandconcert grand

Largest type of piano

upright piano · upright · spinet · toy piano · digital piano

Family

baby, grand, babies, babyish, babying, grandly, babyhood, grandest, grander

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G