Pianola

[pee-uh-noh-luh]

Trademark.

1. a brand of player piano.

noun

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

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

Pianola

/ pɪəˈnəʊlə /

noun

1. Also called: player piano. 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 roll

Example Sentences

John Adams is a particular specialty; Dudamel was the first to record his oratorio “The Gospel According to the Other Mary” and has led older pieces including “Grand Pianola Music.”

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Adams was most brazenly idiosyncratic, and surprising, in his 1982 work “Grand Pianola Music,” which begins in comfortable, Minimalist territory before giving way to a cascading excess and a sweeping melody both familiar and unplaceable.

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Both of these surreal episodes contributed to Adams’s eclectic and playful “Grand Pianola Music.”

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Once booed, “Grand Pianola Music” is now wildly cheered.

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Phil, I’m doing with an old piece of mine, “Grand Pianola Music.”

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Related Words

• grand piano 
• instrument 
• keyboard