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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Examples from the Web for pianola

Looking at the empty box on the pianola, she exclaimed: "Oh, here's one; just watch me tear this off."
The Easiest Way|Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow
Then we said good-bye to our pianola, feeling a reverence for it which we had never felt before.
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
For a person who makes a habit of playing the pianola simply has to toddle the music out of his ankles.
Bizarre|Lawton Mackall

I reached the crowd about the piano—well, everybody has seen a pianola!
The Champagne Standard|Mrs. John Lane

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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Word Origin and History for pianola

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.

Pianola

Trademark.

noun

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Pianola

noun

Word Origin and History for pianola

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