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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

Rinaudo spent the next few years searching for one, cold-calling player piano sellers, theater owners and antique shops.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2025

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

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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