(ALMOST) GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: THE PLAYER PIANO

Continuing our popular series--GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.... and so without further ah-doo....THE PLAYER PIANO!

A player piano (also known as pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music recorded on perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls, with more modern implementations using MIDI. (CLICK ON THE CIRCA 1905 AD FROM THE WILSON PIANO COMPANY). The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass-produced piano for the home in the late 19th and early 20th century Sales peaked in 1924, then declined as the improvement in phonograph recordings due to electrical recording methods developed in the mid-1920s. The advent of electrical amplification in home music reproduction via radio in the same period helped cause their eventual decline in popularity, and the stock market crash of 1929 virtually wiped out production. READ MORE AT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano

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