mechanical piano

From the most brilliantly lighted building the sound of a mechanical piano suddenly burst, hammering out a blatant melody.

He had heard the wild, dissipated notes of a mechanical piano.

There was a mechanical piano in a saloon bar, and it steadily devoured pennies, and returned to us automatic joy, fortissimo, over which our conversation strenuously high-stepped and vaulted.

I began a score which required massed polyphonic effects: a mechanical piano and an electrically driven harmonium, a section of percussion instruments, and two Hungarian cymbalons.

Instead of dosing the kids with cod-liver oil when they need a tonic, they will be set to work at a mechanical piano and braced up on ‘Narcissus.’