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
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
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
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
Farther in, a player piano was playing something that was intended to have been Ravel’s “Bolero.”
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
