Concert Grand Piano (On End)
9′ (108 in / 274 cm)
Catalogue Ref. No. BL-001
Specimen
5′7″
“The Baseline”
A reference standard of sixty-seven inches,
preserved for comparative exhibition.
CLASS: REFERENCE
TYPE: BASELINE
67 IN / 170 CM
STATUS: PERMANENT
5′7″
baseline
9′
Concert Grand Piano (On End)
That's 41 inches taller.
A Steinway Model D concert grand is 8 feet 11 inches long. Stand it on end and it towers at 1.6 Tom Cruises. It also weighs about 990 pounds.
Fun Fact
A concert grand piano has about 12,000 individual parts and 230 strings under roughly 20 tons of combined tension. One wrong move and it becomes a very expensive harp.