player piano
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The player piano and the phonograph not only introduced recorded music to a mass audience, they also prepared the way for machines to become integrated into musical creation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026
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
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
Made of die-cut stainless steel, the design renders the player piano roll for the late-‘60s jazz standard “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” that was popularized by Barbra Streisand.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2022
Because the apartment is located right on top of the steakhouse, I can hear the noisy player piano in the bar every night as I fall asleep.
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
