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was placed above the keyboard, so the cases had to be quite tall. Moving the pin block to the top of the frame and sloping the string plane cleared the path to the modern upright piano design – and eventually ended the era of the 19th century upright grand pianos.
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set up vertically. The design had been invented in
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oriented toward audience, allowed to produce full sound in Đ° smaller-sized instrument. The idea of a vertical placement of strings is very old:
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imitating giraffe's head, space next to it was frequently used for the display shelves. The pianos mostly used the
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with hammers below the keys and typically had four pedals. Until the turn of the 19th century, the
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