pianola

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“In the Beginning” featured an unpredictable mix of music, as the New Yorker described: “an old pianola roll, a hymn, the Beatles, an Irish patriotic song, Judy Collins, a spiritual, a march, Simon & Garfunkel.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

The film progresses slowly in 12 parts, each determined in some way by an astrological sign, and accompanied by music Van der Werve has written for pianola.

From The Guardian • Sep. 15, 2017

Considering all this, Stravinsky’s “Madrid” — written for mechanical pianola but presented in a two-pianos version by Stravinsky’s son Soulima — was perhaps too blithe and evocative to represent the evening’s thesis.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2013

Efforts at formal lessons were abandoned when Minchin was about 12; the family had a decrepit pianola on which Minchin taught himself to play.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013

The old mansion, painted white since the time they had brought the pianola, took on the strange look of a mosque.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez