Here's a look at Alec Van Khajadourian, a five-year-old piano prodigy who's talents have taken him all the way to Carnegie ...

Player pianos work via a vacuum, where air is sucked through a few pin points in a piano roll with a bellows. A series of pipes leading to each key translate these small holes into notes.

“I’ve had my player piano for over 50 years. My parents bought it when I was a kid,” said Jack Shear of Calabasas, enjoying his 80-year-old, museum-quality player piano, with its paper rolls ...

Piano maker Yamaha has convinced 20 U.S. schools, so far, to conduct in-person auditions without the actual person, using a line of Internet-connected player pianos called Disklavier.

He resorted to a player piano, which required only that he pump the bellows. DeWitt found a broken player piano at a Goodwill Industries store in 1957.

A player piano roll controls the piano at Sing-a-long Bar and Grill in Mount Vernon on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. (Liz Martin/The Gazette) ...

Coin-operated player pianos called nickelodeons (essentially the first jukeboxes) could be found in restaurants, saloons, speakeasies, even brothels. Equipped with percussion instruments, ...

Player pianos have been around since the 19th century. They peaked in the early 1920s, just before record players and the radio elbowed them out of the living room.

STANFORD — Stanford University wants to unlock the secrets of the player piano, which brought recorded music into living rooms long before there were cassettes, compact discs or iPods. Stanford ...

Sales have held steady at around 31,000 a year for the past decade, but in 2024, fewer than 18,000 were sold, according to an industry census conducted by Music Trades.. Crew members from Piano ...