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player piano

noun

: a piano containing a mechanism by which it plays automatically

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The normally bustling area fills with guests sipping drinks accented by a signature rubber ducky from the bar and listening to tunes from the player piano or artists singing lively carols. Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025 During Knott’s Scary Farm, Fingers’ Ghost sits on an empty stool at a player piano on the Calico Saloon stage and plays requests shouted out by bar patrons. Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025 Is someone listening off stage with a hidden microphone and a pre-programmed player piano? Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2025 For the play’s world premiere at the Yale Rep, the set designer E. David Cosier Jr. modified an old upright player piano that his crew found in a nearby bar. Robert Ito, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for player piano

Word History

First Known Use

1905, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of player piano was in 1905

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“Player piano.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/player%20piano. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.

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player piano

noun
: a piano containing an automatic playing mechanism

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