: a piano containing a mechanism by which it plays automatically
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Is someone listening off stage with a hidden microphone and a pre-programmed player piano?—Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2025 For the play’s world premiere at the Yale Rep, the set designer E. David Cosier Jr. modified an old upright player piano that his crew found in a nearby bar.—Robert Ito, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024 The sometime collaborator of Oneohtrix Point Never and FKA twigs switches from prepared to acoustic piano on Moves in the Field, using a modern player piano, the Yamaha Disklavier, to write melodies too intricate for human hands.—Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 29 Mar. 2024 Consider the player piano, a machine that takes rolls of paper as input.—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024 See All Example Sentences for player piano
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