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Definition: The piano lid is the adjustable slab of wood that opens on top of the instrument, revealing its strings, hammers, and soundboard. The key lid opens to reveal the piano keyboard.

Lids are found on horizontal and vertical pianos; members of the harpsichord family, and on some types of organs and electric keyboards.

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