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

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

His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells� but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The chamberlains, to facilitate matters, had arranged the boxes of music for the mechanical piano very methodically on a table, so there should be no mistakes or fumbling with the slides.

From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)