player pianos
Automated musical instruments
A player piano is a piano that plays itself mechanically, using a pneumatic system to read perforated paper rolls that encode the music.
Popular in the early twentieth century before recorded music became widespread, player pianos could reproduce performances without a live musician: The saloon had a player piano in the corner.
The technology has nostalgic associations with that era.
- pianolaAutomatic keyboard instrument
- automaticOperating without intervention
- perforatedHaving holes throughout
- instrumentalServing as means
- keyboardArray of input keys
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player pianoslive performance
Unrecorded staged entertainment
live music · concert performance · recitals · improvisational music · jam sessions
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