Player, Piano is a sublime, peaceful collection of 12 solo piano tacks, released on the Modern Recordings label, an imprint of BMG. His new deal with the Berlin-based company brings all but one of ...

Player pianos work via a vacuum, where air is sucked through a few pin points in a piano roll with a bellows. A series of pipes leading to each key translate these small holes into notes.

Piano maker Yamaha has convinced 20 U.S. schools, so far, to conduct in-person auditions without the actual person, using a line of Internet-connected player pianos called Disklavier.

The piano was playing a live recreation, or “re-performance,” of a Peterson concert recording from the mid-’70s, as masterminded by the Durham, N.C.-based “sound innovation” company Zenph.

For too long, player piano-human interactions have been a one-way conversation. But thanks to a little techno-tinkering, this no longer need be the case. Sing for Hope Pianos, an annual art ...

WINNIPEG — They’re considered the original jukebox. But it wasn’t the music behind player pianos that first caught Alan Turner’s ear, it was the mechanics under the wood and the way they ...

The company prides itself in having made the world’s best player pianos for over 105 years and during the course of a dinner in the United States a few years ago the management got talking about ...

” Peacherine Rag ” kicks in when Dolores goes into Sweetwater, while the classical, a Debussy piece called “ Reverie L.68,” is played by a host on a player piano in Dr. Ford’s office.