player piano
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The phonograph and the player piano together brought technological musical reproduction into the home in the early 1900s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
Any piece for so many pianos is bound to call to mind Conlon Nancarrow, an American composer who wrote vastly complex music for the player piano.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
Glass does appear briefly, in the form of a Steinway Spirio piano — an instrument that can record sound and touch then reproduce it, like an advanced player piano.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Luce, in collaboration with metals fabricator A. Zahner Co., also designed a ceiling canopy for the lobby, titled “Suspended Refrain,” which harkens to the geometric patterns of player piano rolls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Farther in, a player piano was playing something that was intended to have been Ravel’s “Bolero.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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