How to Use player piano in a Sentence

player piano

noun

• Like today’s text-to-song systems, the player piano promised polished musical output for people with little or no training.
  — Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
• For the next hour, Everest moved from fortune tellers to boxing matches to player pianos, laughing as mechanical wonders came alive.
  — Maggie Downs, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
• 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
• About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano.
  — Adam Ozimek, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• More than a century ago the rise of the player piano prompted strikingly similar debates about automation, artistry and fair compensation.
  — Steven Melendez, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2026
• By the early 1900s, player pianos had evolved to more fully reproduce a human performance, including subtle dynamics like tempo changes and the introduction of a damper pedal.
  — Adam Ozimek, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• 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
• First, the Art Institute invites Grammy darlings Third Coast Percussion to perform pieces for player piano by late architect Bruce Goff, the subject of a major retrospective running through March.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026