Lawson is the present age’s most indefatigably expressive, engagingly expert, charmingly witty, and vigorously erudite virtuoso of the Pianola. This music-making creation evolved rather more ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In the early 1980s, John Adams’s “Grand Pianola Music” defied the seriousness of classical music. Not everyone liked that. By Joshua Barone ...

A player piano is also known as "Pianola". They started appearing over a century ago. Bob says that back in the day they filled an entertainment void. Bob's business is Pianola Enterprises.

So, wait, Antheil actually composed for not just ONE Pianola in the Ballet méchanique, but 16 of the beasts? At the time, it was impossible to synchronize the simultaneous start of 16 machines at ...

The first pianola was completed by Edwin Votey in a workshop in Detroit, in 1895. Suction power, produced by pumping air through bellows, controls the pianolas keys, which are 'played' by ...

He sat down with NPR's Renee Montagne to talk about the string quartet concerto Absolute Jest and an older piece, Grand Pianola Music. Would it have been — in the early '80s and in the late '70s ...

PiaNOLA Live, the first-ever live solo album from legendary pianist Henry Butler, will be released on April 29th by New Orleans-based indie label Basin Street Records (distributed through RED). Butler ...

Mary-Annette Hay reunited with a pianola from her childhood. A 1925 pianola which was previously used in Bright's Theatre before it burned down in 1935 has been returned to Otaki. The self-playing ...

In this captivating Between the Ears, Professor Shawn Sobers uncovers the fascinating story of Emperor Haile Selassie I and his pianola as told through the music of the time. This Between the Ears ...