How to Use player piano in a Sentence

player piano

noun

• In the home section, Ted has a player piano, a phonograph and a Regina Music Box made in 1898.
  — Leann Burke, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• Key elements remain the same, like the player piano and the host’s hands that initially play the music.
  — Megan Friedman, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Apr. 2018
• Each tome contains a single person's code, written in the format a player piano could read.
  — Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 June 2018
• There wasn’t a player piano in sight during the premiere episode, only sleek high rises and hovercraft.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2020
• Trail Distilling’s tasting room is decked out with gleaming antiques like a player piano and a ’53 Chevy pickup.
  — Kathleen Squires, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• There were a number of player pianos and other music-making machines, too.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2018
• The physics teacher, Jack Gibbs, is working on a history of the player piano—a project Gaddis himself labored over throughout his life—that has grown out of control.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020
• Lamarr had had the idea, and Antheil, a mechanical genius with player pianos, put it into practice.
  — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
• The amusement park is auctioning hundreds of historic items, from a fortune-teller machine to a player piano to 1980s-era arcade games.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 7 Nov. 2019
• And the most popular entertainment devices were the player piano and phonograph.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 Jan. 2018
• Stebbins chose the name to contrast with the popular pizzeria of that day, Papa's Pizza Parlor, a Shakey's-esque family restaurant with a player piano.
  — Bud Kennedy, star-telegram, 30 May 2018
• The often-uneven payouts for artists and their record labels can also be traced to the early 1900s with another advancement in music technology: the player piano.
  — Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2022
• That digital stream could be reverse-programmed into the animation in a way that worked almost like a player piano signaling to the animators which key was being played with each note.
  — New York Times, 25 Dec. 2020
• In 2019, for example, the DOJ vacated consent decrees having to do with competition in the horseshoe, player piano, and phonograph sectors.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2020
• Sale includes full contents of the house, including Kohler Campbell baby grand player piano, mint condition Frigidaire kitchen appliances c. 1950.
  — Michelle Ewing, ajc, 19 Mar. 2018
• Then came player piano rolls, vinyl records, CDs and now streaming, innovations that whittled the tangible contribution to music down to almost nothing.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 26 Dec. 2020
• But Chadwick’s invention, possibly inspired by the player pianos that were popular at the time, added a warning sound to alert drivers of impending turns or hazards and displayed symbols to indicate what was ahead.
  — Betsy Mason, National Geographic, 29 Aug. 2017
• Before and after her performance, a sound installation played of poets and artists discussing race, while a player piano ran through a preprogrammed set of Mr. Iyer’s improvisations.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 2 July 2018
• Wolfe and Fritz also investigate John’s collection of player pianos, vehicles, mechanical items and some antiques that capture Wolfe’s interest (including one very famous advertising figure).
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2019

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