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
He had Steinway program a player piano to perform “Mad Rush” with Glass pounding playing style, and he had his roaming camera observe the big cat’s response to the music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
Inspired by the player piano in Mr. Sidner’s office, the project, she said, explores “music as craft.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 2, 2021
He invented, for example, a player organ: an organ which, like a player piano, automatically played music according to the information conveyed by pins on a turning drum.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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