Noun
a mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys
Source: WordNetplayer-piano
A machine perforates a performance recording into rolls of paper, and the player piano replays the performance using pneumatic devices. Source: Internet
Modern equivalents of the player piano include the Bösendorfer CEUS, Yamaha Disklavier and QRS Pianomation, citation using solenoids and MIDI rather than pneumatics and rolls. Source: Internet
Grieg also made live-recording player piano music rolls for the Hupfeld Phonola piano-player system and Welte-Mignon reproducing system, all of which survive today and can be heard. Source: Internet
He recorded for Edison's company, producing some of the earliest disk recordings, and also the earliest ragtime recordings in any medium other than player piano. Source: Internet
In 1918 he won a talent contest playing Johnson's "Carolina Shout", a song he learned from watching a player piano play it. Source: Internet
Several of these were recorded on player piano rolls, several of which have survived to this day. Source: Internet