How To Use Pianola In A Sentence
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Played on a pianola the music sounds distorted and lacks the orchestral colour that the ear expects.
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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
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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.
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Particular favourites were the Victorian schoolroom, Edwardian kitchen, blow football table and the brilliant pianola mechanical piano which played itself!
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Piano solos, duets, and accompanied songs were the mainstays, joined by novelties for concertinas and harmoniums, and, later on, the pianola.
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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
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In the third movement, this comes out most clearly, as the pianola sputters to a breakdown.
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In the second version the brass was replaced by a harmonium and the strings by a pianola and two cymbaloms.
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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.
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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.
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Played on a pianola the music sounds distorted and lacks the orchestral colour that the ear expects.
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Sheet music at five cents a page, mouth organs manufactured in Germany, tin whistles and recorders from St Petersburg, and pianola rolls were among the commodities the stores offered for sale.
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An equivalent system is the punched-hole stack of connected cards used in a pianola, or the rotating slotted-metal disk in a nickelodeon, where the music is being played in response to the arrangement of the holes.
