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  2. Player piano - Wikipedia

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    A restored pneumatic player piano Steinway reproducing piano from 1920. Harold Bauer playing Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22, excerpt of 3rd movement. Duo-Art recording 5973-4. A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electromechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or ...

  3. Piano roll - Wikipedia

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    A player piano roll being played Mastertouch Australian Dance Gems piano roll with lyrics printed to side. 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 rolls of paper with holes punched into them. These perforations represent note ...

  4. Player Piano (novel) - Wikipedia

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    A player piano is a modified piano that "plays itself". The piano keys move according to a pattern of holes punched in an unwinding scroll. Unlike a music synthesizer, the instrument actually produces the sound itself, with the keys moving up and down, driving hammers that strike the strings. Like its counterpart, a player piano can be played ...

  5. Sheet music - Wikipedia

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    Sheet music can be used as a record of, a guide to, or a means to perform, a song or piece of music. Sheet music enables instrumental performers who are able to read music notation (a pianist, orchestral instrument players, a jazz band, etc.) or singers to perform a song or piece. Music students use sheet music to learn about different styles ...

  6. Conlon Nancarrow - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Conlon Nancarrow (/ n æ n ˈ k ær oʊ /; [1] October 27, 1912 – August 10, 1997) was an American-Mexican composer who lived and worked in Mexico 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, realizing their potential to play far beyond human performance ab

  7. Character sheet - Wikipedia

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    A character sheet from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. A character sheet is a record of a player character in a role-playing game, including whatever details, notes, game statistics, and background information a player would need during a play session. Character sheets can be found in use in both traditional and live-action role-playing games.

  8. Player Character Record Sheets - Wikipedia

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    An updated Player Character Record Sheets pack for AD&D (serialized as REF2), with a new cover by Keith Parkinson, was released in 1986 as a 64-page booklet. [2]: 112 REF2 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Player Character Record Sheets is a booklet containing 16 character sheets, with sufficient spaces included to record information for AD&D characters.

  9. Keyboard Cat - Wikipedia

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    Charlie Schmidt, who made the Keyboard Cat video. Keyboard Cat is a video-based internet meme.Its original form was a video made in 1984 by Charlie Schmidt of his cat Fatso seemingly playing a musical keyboard (though manipulated by Schmidt off-camera) to a cheery tune.