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  • History
    • Gravicembalo col piano e forte
    • The piano as an autonomous instrument (before 1800)
    • The piano in the 1st half of the 19th century
    • The piano after 1850
    • The piano in Poland
    • Folk instruments in Chopin's piano music
  • Pianos
    • Types of pianos
    • Grand pianos
    • Square pianos
    • Vertical pianos
    • Upright pianos
    • Hybrid pianos
  • Piano makers
  • Collections
    • The Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek
    • The Andrzej Szwalbe Collection, Ostromecko
    • The Fryderyk Chopin Institute
    • Diocesan Museum in Sandomierz
    • Private Collections
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  • Classification
Grand piano
The grand piano is a piano that has a horizontal case in the shape of a bird's wing (a triangle) with the keyboard set in the shorter side.
Upright piano
The upright piano is a vertical piano whose case is almost entirely located under the keyboard, making the instrument shorter than its predecessor by half, or more.

Square piano
The square piano is a piano that has a horizontal, rectangular or polygonal, case with the keyboard set in the long side.

Hybrid
Hybrid pianos blend characteristics of string instruments and attributes of the pump organ or the self-playing pianola.

Vertical piano
The vertical piano is a piano that has a vertical frame whose greater part is located above the keyboard. Depending on the shape of the frame, different names are used, including: giraffe piano, pyramid piano, lyre piano, bookcase piano, etc.

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