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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 ...
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 ...
The Piano Lesson is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson.It is the fourth play in Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle.Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir[ing] a sense of self-worth by denying one's past". [1]