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Definition of Mechanical piano
1. Noun. A mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mechanical Piano
Literary usage of Mechanical piano
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in the Tuileries Under the Second Empire by Anna L. Bicknell (1895)
"... composed by Queen Hor- tense—The Emperor's dislike of music—The mechanical
piano — The " Stabat Mater " performed in the chapel — The supposed excessive ..."
2. Music (1899)
"If piano playing of artists were no more than the instruction books seem to regard
it, it would be quite easy to make a mechanical piano player which would ..."
3. Paris Days and London Nights by Alice Ziska Snyder, Milton Valentine Snyder (1921)
"Paris Days and London Nights CHAPTER I Paris and London Bombed Simultaneously—Freaks
of an Aerial Raid—mechanical piano Started by Explosion Continues to ..."
4. Paris Days and London Nights by Alice Ziska Snyder, Milton Valentine Snyder (1921)
"... Bombed Simultaneously—^Freak's'of an "Aerial Raid—mechanical piano Started by
Explosion Continues to Play amid Destruction of Building—Sleeping through ..."
5. Brazil [a Handbook]. (1891)
"... ivory Music : On wooden sheets, for mechanical piano On pasteboard, for
mechanical piano Pianos: Square, upright, or half grand Grand ..."
6. The Musical World (1877)
"When I return, I shall, with my Pig, my Horse, my merry Tartar Boy, my Mechanical
Piano, and perhaps a fair Circassian or two (something like the lady with ..."
7. The Musical Amateur: A Book on the Human Side of Music by Robert Haven Schauffler (1911)
"His only mechanical piano is likely to be inside his own head. But this is a
superb and indispensable instrument. In fact, one is almost tempted to ..."
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