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.

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.

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

“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.

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… ...

A dozen deconstructed pianos crowd Ray Ternstrom’s workshop, their parts laid out like bones at an archeological dig. Here, the even teeth of unmoored keys. There, a riblike row of hammers awaiting ...

STANFORD — Stanford University wants to unlock the secrets of the player piano, which brought recorded music into living rooms long before there were cassettes, compact discs or iPods. Stanford ...

The Detroit Opera is opening its doors for a three-day piano sale, Sept. 5–7, offering more than 200 new and gently used ...

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