A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.
1From the living room came the loud drumming of the player piano.
2The Orchesterelle Company was not the only player piano-making outfit in London.
3By Stuart Jeffries In 1914, the player piano was the last word.
4She bought a player piano and her grandson played it to distraction.
5The player piano was belting out something with a jazzy beat.
6You can hear the trains coming to town, the player piano in the bar.
7All the while, the player piano sped through light waltzes.
8A player piano sat beside it, cover cracked, wooden case a battlefield of cigarette burns.
9Farther in, a player piano was playing something that was intended to be Ravel's Bolero.
10There was an old player piano in Maynard's, but the mechanism inside it rotted out.
11For many who pioneered it, the player piano was meant to transcend humanity with mechanical perfection.
12The piano is a Yamaha Disklavier, a kind of modern-day player piano as Knudsen puts it.
13Mac keeps a player piano instead.
14A player piano pumping out "Black Hole Sun."
15The player piano was refurbished by hand (see a bit of the process in the video above).
16He used to like to listen to a player piano; now he has a phonograph and some classical recordings.
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