What do you do with 100 player piano rolls but no player piano? You come up with a way to digitize the information for MIDI playback. The rolls have 90 columns worth of holes, 88 for the keys and t… ...

Otto, a baby-faced 29-year-old, has decided that it’s his job to bring player pianos back to life. “I feel obligated to keep these things going,” he said. “I’m the only one doing it.” ...

The player piano is therefore more than just a metaphor for Westworld’s robots. It represents the repetition of play in which the audience interacts, straddling the divide between past and present.

Restoring a player piano, which has almost double the 12,000 moving parts of a regular piano, involves ”hundreds of hours of what can be murderous work,” Dayton says.

Walk in the door here of Player Piano Co. Inc. and you may find yourself greeted by the two office cats while an office worker takes your name. It`s a mail-order company that sells player piano ...

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Home entertainment system The classic player piano, or pianola, was first developed at the end of the 19th century. It was a piano, usually an upright, that could be played normally.