Pianola

[ pee-uh-noh-luh ]

/ ˌpi əˈnoʊ lə /

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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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Words nearby Pianola

piano accordion, piano bar, piano duet, pianoforte, piano hinge, Pianola, piano nobile, piano player, piano quartet, piano quintet, piano reduction

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How to use Pianola in a sentence

The family had evidently arrived, for the unmistakable sounds of a pianola were issuing from the house.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
We can read books for ourselves; and we can play a good deal of fine music for ourselves with the help of a pianola.
A Treatise on Parents and Children|George Bernard Shaw
A landsman would have said that my progress resembled pumping a rhapsody on a pianola, or skiing in the Alps.
Bizarre|Lawton Mackall
For a person who makes a habit of playing the pianola simply has to toddle the music out of his ankles.
Bizarre|Lawton Mackall

There is one lamp and one table, and one stove, and unless papa plays the pianola there is nothing to do but talk.
My War Experiences in Two Continents|Sarah Macnaughtan

British Dictionary definitions for Pianola

Pianola

/ (pɪəˈnəʊlə) /

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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