Pianola

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• Played on a pianola the music sounds distorted and lacks the orchestral colour that the ear expects.
• I tend to like those pieces best where that weightiness is continued through to the end — Grand Pianola Music, Nixon, Naive and Sentimental Music. Generalization of the day
• Such was the cultural prominence of the player piano then that it was not unusual to learn the piano by following the moves of the pianola.
• Particular favourites were the Victorian schoolroom, Edwardian kitchen, blow football table and the brilliant pianola mechanical piano which played itself!
• Piano solos, duets, and accompanied songs were the mainstays, joined by novelties for concertinas and harmoniums, and, later on, the pianola.
• Moreover there are pieces of which the Liszt "Campanella," the Mendelssohn "Rondo Capriccioso" and the "Rosamunde" impromptu of Schubert, are examples, that, when played on the pianola by a musical person, sound just as well as if they came from under the fingers of the greatest living virtuoso -- possibly better. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
• In the third movement, this comes out most clearly, as the pianola sputters to a breakdown.
• In the second version the brass was replaced by a harmonium and the strings by a pianola and two cymbaloms.
• The music of dawn floated in through his open window, a gentle melody of two or three seraphic pianolas playing, in unison, a lost song of an eternally troubled composer, whose name is not on one's lips, but in the sky.
• The mechanical instrument museum was fascinating; its exhibits range from early musical clocks through pianolas and reproducing pianos to enormous dance organs which were the precursors of the disco.