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
As a teenager, he thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if the player piano could play along with a silent movie?”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025
A player piano dashed out a Scott Joplin rag, its pep perfectly scoring the electric scene.
From New York Times • May 10, 2022
The diamonds of the backgammon board undulated like player piano keys.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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