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Pianola

American  
[pee-uh-noh-luh] / ˌpi əˈnoʊ lə /
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 British  
/ 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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A new generation of conductors has also taken up “Grand Pianola Music,” such as Christian Reif, who presented it with members of the International Contemporary Ensemble at the Mostly Mozart Festival in 2018.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

If audiences were slow to accept “Grand Pianola Music,” it may have been because they didn’t know what to make of its puckish rebelliousness.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

At the time, however, “Grand Pianola Music” seemed a strange follow-up to the sensuous “Harmonium,” and not exactly a natural predecessor of the straight-faced and symphonically cosmic “Harmonielehre.”

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2021

“Grand Pianola Music” The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s “Sound/Stage” series continues with sopranos Elissa Johnston and Holly Sedillos and mezzo-soprano Kristen Toedtman in this dreamlike 1981 work by John Adams.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2021

For this reason the term Pianola was used in the paragraph referred to and now is employed in this book; and, for the same reason, this book is called "The Pianolist."

From The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players by Kobbé, Gustav

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