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    A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic...
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  • Piano player may refer to: Pianist, who plays the piano Piano Player (album), 1998 album featuring jazz pianist Bill Evans The Piano Player (Ramsey Lewis...
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  • Player Piano is the debut novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation partly inspired by...
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    depressed, so the player can repeat the same note rapidly when desired. Cristofori's piano action was a model for the many approaches to piano actions that...
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  • Shoot the Piano Player (French: Tirez sur le pianiste; UK title: Shoot the Pianist) is a 1960 French New Wave crime drama film directed by François Truffaut...
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    A piano roll is a music storage medium used to operate a player piano, piano player or reproducing piano. Piano rolls, like other music rolls, are continuous...
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  • They Shot the Piano Player (Spanish: Dispararon al pianista) is a 2023 adult animated docudrama film directed by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Centred...
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  • The Player Piano was a post-rock band from Provo, Utah in the United States. The members of the Player Piano met while still in college in Provo, Utah...
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  • A player piano is a self-playing piano. Player piano may also refer to: Player Piano (novel), 1952 novel by Kurt Vonnegut Player Piano (album), 2011 album...
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  • features found on a digital piano. Virtual player piano software can simultaneously play MIDI / score music files, highlight the piano keys corresponding to...
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    manufacturing pianos and eventually relocated to North Tonawanda, New York. It quickly expanded to make band organs, orchestrions, player pianos and pipe or...
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    The Studies for Player Piano is a series of 49 études for player piano by American composer Conlon Nancarrow. Often exploring complex rhythmic variations...
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    Coloana fără sfârşit (original version for Player Piano) (1993) Continuum (1970) (adapted for two Player Pianos) Capriccio nº 1 & nº 2 (1947) Invention (1948)...
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    Calliope (music) (redirect from Steam piano)
    live musician. The music roll operated in a similar manner to a piano roll in a player piano, mechanically operating the keys. Many of these mechanical calliopes...
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    worldwide. Belousova is recognized for her project Player Piano (first introduced as Cosplay Piano from the executive producer Stan Lee of Marvel Comics)...
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    reporter for the City News Bureau. Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. It received positive reviews yet sold poorly. In the nearly...
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    for most of his life. Nancarrow is best remembered for his Studies for Player Piano, being one of the first composers to use auto-playing musical instruments...
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  • and video files Player piano, a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed...
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  • a partial list of piano manufacturers. Most piano professionals have access to detailed information about these brands using a piano atlas to reference...
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    of impossible piano existed long before Black MIDI, manifesting itself for example within Conlon Nancarrow's work involving player pianos, in which he...
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  • Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player is the sixth studio album by English musician Elton John. Released on 26 January 1973 by DJM Records, it was the...
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  • Player Piano is the second studio album of Dayve Hawke, under the alias of Memory Tapes. It was released July 5, 2011. The cover art features an image...
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    musical instruments: Cylinder music boxes, disc music boxes, piano players and player pianos... Incl. a dictionary of automatic musical instrument terms...
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  • Music player can refer to: Various types of musicians: bass player, guitar player, piano player, etc. Music box Player piano Record player Tape player Media...
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  • Piano Player is a compilation of recordings featuring jazz pianist Bill Evans released in 1998 on the Columbia label. The album contains a previously unreleased...
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    1940 work for piano) Greeting Prelude for orchestra (1955), for the 80th birthday of Pierre Monteux 8 Instrumental Miniatures for 15 Players (1963, orchestration...
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    Steinway (/ˈstaɪnweɪ/ ), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later...
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    (1911) Pianos and Their Makers: A Comprehensive History of the Development of the Piano from the Monochord to the Concert Grand Player Piano. Covina...
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  • An Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Russian: Неоконченная пьеса для механического пианино, romanized: Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo...
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  • on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man. The song is sung from the point of view of a piano player at a bar, describing the patrons. "Piano Man" is based on Joel's...
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