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player piano

noun

  1. a piano that can play automatically when the keys are actuated electronically or by a pneumatic device controlled by a piano roll.


player piano

noun

  1. a mechanical piano; Pianola
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Origin of player piano1

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
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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.

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There were newfangled inventions: player pianos, phonographs and nickelodeons.

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Glass does appear briefly, in the form of a Steinway Spirio piano — an instrument that can record sound and touch then reproduce it, like an advanced player piano.

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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.

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An older man dropped a coin into the player piano, which pushed out a quick song like the kind from a carousel.

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