NOUN
- a mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys
How To Use player piano In A Sentence
- Heathrow's answer to this is a player piano tinkling merrily nearby. Times, Sunday Times
- A new clutch of CDs of player piano music by Gershwin, ragtime whizz Zez Confrey and hep jazzer Jelly Roll Morton have just been released by Nonesuch using state-of-the-art computer technology to bring them to new life.
- Perforated cards began to replace barrels for fairground organs during the 19th century, and at about that time the player piano, with a punched paper roll, was introduced.
- ‘Monk's Dream’ perches perfectly between barrelhouse boogie woogie and rippling Conlon Nancarrow player piano.
- Watching that player piano inspired me to overcome my reticence and take lessons.
- Some of his inventions are based on the technology used in cuckoo clocks, mechanical toys, piano rolls, and player pianos. George Heymont: There's Art Right At Your Fingertips!
- It was scored for 16 player pianos that were to be tightly synchronised during concert performance.
- We made it down on Wednesday and happily soaked in the familiarity of their usual displays, the electronic player piano, the rows of soda fridges along one wall, and pallets in the aisles stacked with merchandise.
- Heathrow's answer to this is a player piano tinkling merrily nearby. Times, Sunday Times
- We mentioned player pianos brieflyand recently in a story about the musician Scott Joplin and his invention of ragtime music in Sedalia, Missouri.
