mechanical piano
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The show’s soundscape, devised by Luz, is full of popping mics, uncanny reverberations, sustained clusters of discordant notes and an out-of-tune mechanical piano.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
A dark-bearded portly man, whose flowing garments billowed opulently, wandered through the gaudy Spring Fair at Fez last week, buying here a mechanical piano, there a thoroughbred stallion, a typewriter, jeweled sandals.
From Time Magazine Archive
There the tape is fed into especially equipped Linotype machines, whose typesetting keys it controls in much the same way that a pianola roll controls the keys of a mechanical piano.
From Time Magazine Archive
Almost every motion picture theatre has its orchestra, pianist, or mechanical piano.
From The Art of the Moving Picture by Vachel Lindsay
Then the mechanical piano which had stopped during the speech-making suddenly started up with a loud twang of "Under the Bamboo Tree."
From Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow
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