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
John Cage’s short, Satie-esque “Experiences 1” and Conlon Nancarrow’s tango-like Study No. 6, originally for player piano, then introduced John Adams’ “Hallelujah Junction.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2025
The rotating stage is dominated by a wooden swing, a player piano and, most memorably, a gigantic fish: two halves of a trout, suspended high above the actors.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
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
