Cunningham Piano builds, restores and supplies pianos for people around the world. The Philadelphia company has been a leader ...

Home entertainment system The classic player piano, or pianola, was first developed at the end of the 19th century. It was a piano, usually an upright, that could be played normally.

“The player piano is basically one of the earliest home computers,” said Randy Hammond, a Brooklyn Center man who has hired Otto to repair some of the four player pianos he owns.

And new players are being made. Q.R.S. recently has developed an electronic player piano. Wurlitzer Co., of DeKalb, Ill., is setting up production lines to begin producing player pianos in April.

If you’re going to perform a 'Star Wars' medley, where better to play than on Millennium Falcon, Darth Vader and R2-D2 pianos, right? Player Piano thought so too.

The Battlefield Boulevard shop where Ted DeWitt long coaxed music out of intricate machinery is gone. But DeWitt’s player piano repair business continues, operating out of his Chesapeake apar… ...

Better quality player pianos, such as this 1913 model owned by Carmen Farmer of Picayune, Miss., are now considered collectibles.

Stanford’s Player Piano Project was bolstered by the recent acquisitions of three private collections of player pianos, piano-playing machines and music rolls.

Player pianos ”may have created some musical talent out there,” Dayton said. ”We still have people come in who say they learned how to play the piano by watching the piano play the music ...

Ray’s son Dan joined the business 10 years ago and has developed a fondness for mending the works of player pianos. “Each player piano is unique in itself,” said Dan Ternstrom, 54.