How to Use player piano in a Sentence
player piano
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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
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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
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Each tome contains a single person's code, written in the format a player piano could read.
—Sandra Upson, WIRED, 25 June 2018
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There wasn’t a player piano in sight during the premiere episode, only sleek high rises and hovercraft.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2020
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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
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There were a number of player pianos and other music-making machines, too.
—Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 29 Sep. 2018
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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
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Lamarr had had the idea, and Antheil, a mechanical genius with player pianos, put it into practice.
—Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 26 Mar. 2018
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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
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And the most popular entertainment devices were the player piano and phonograph.
—Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 13 Jan. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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