Pianola

[pee-uh-noh-luh]

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Trademark.

a brand of player piano.

noun

(lowercase) Bridge. a hand, as a laydown, that is very easy to play.

(lowercase) something that is very easy to do or accomplish.

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Related Words for pianola

instrument, keyboard, player, clavier, pianoforte, clavichord, spinet

Examples from the Web for pianola

Historical Examples of pianola

For three months the pianola has not been played by either of us.
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914
Various
I looked at the pianola and then I said to Celia, "I must play it once again."
Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, November 25, 1914
Various
It was as if he had been a pianola and somebody had inserted a new record.
The Girl on the Boat
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
Then I remembered; and I came home and almost decided to sell the pianola.
Once a Week
Alan Alexander Milne
The pianola has done it, and done the same thing in thousands of other cases.
The Pianolist
Gustav Kobb

British Dictionary definitions for pianola

Pianola

noun

trademark a type of mechanical piano in which the keys are depressed by air pressure from bellows, this air flow being regulated by perforations in a paper rollAlso called: player piano

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Word Origin and History for pianola

c.1896, trademark name (1901) of a player piano, from piano, the ending perhaps abstracted from viola and meant as a diminutive suffix. The pianola's popularity led to a rash of product names ending in -ola, especially Victrola (q.v.), and slang words such as payola.