pianola

Example Sentences

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“In the Beginning” featured an unpredictable mix of music, as the New Yorker described: “an old pianola roll, a hymn, the Beatles, an Irish patriotic song, Judy Collins, a spiritual, a march, Simon & Garfunkel.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2022

Considering all this, Stravinsky’s “Madrid” — written for mechanical pianola but presented in a two-pianos version by Stravinsky’s son Soulima — was perhaps too blithe and evocative to represent the evening’s thesis.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2013

Efforts at formal lessons were abandoned when Minchin was about 12; the family had a decrepit pianola on which Minchin taught himself to play.

From The Guardian • Mar. 31, 2013

The most disconcerting thing, however, is a long length of vacuum-cleaner hose that snakes from a doorway and between the speakers to the pianola.

From The Guardian • Jun. 6, 2010

The old mansion, painted white since the time they had brought the pianola, took on the strange look of a mosque.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez