Sentence examples for uprights from inspiring English sources

Each year Steinway's factories in Astoria, New York, and Hamburg, Germany, produce about 3,000 grand pianos priced at up to $100,000 and 1,500 uprights, roughly the same production rate as a century ago.Steinway is also skilful at marrying pianists to the brand, and there is an official roster of about 1,300 "Steinway artists", from Alfred Brendel to Billy Joel.

Rubber hoses connect the uprights to their mates in the mobile part of the building.

Rubber hoses that can sag, when slack, into spaces in the base connect the uprights to their mates in the mobile part of the building.

The lintels, weighing some 7 tons each, are held on top of the uprights by mortise-and-tenon (dovetail) joints, and the ends of the curved lintels of the sarsen circle fit together with tongue-and-groove joints.

Inside that ring are the remains of two smaller adjoining stone circles, each originally consisting of about 30 uprights and each approximately 350 feet (105 metres) in diameter.

This, in part, accounts for the characteristic "touch" of uprights, which is distinct from that of grands.

Chairs had hooped uprights, and fiddle-shaped splate curved to support the back.

The uprights of the giant trilithon, however, were 29 feet (9 metres) and 32 feet (10 metres) high, weighing more than 45 tons.

Only one of the giant trilithon's uprights still stands, reaching a height above ground of about 23 feet (7 metres).

They were then arranged inside the circle in a horseshoe-shaped setting of five tall trilithons (paired uprights with a lintel)—the central and largest of which is known as the giant trilithon surrounded by 30 uprights linked by curved lintels to form a circle.

A bar rests on two uprights so that it will fall easily if touched.