IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This piano player was made by Aeolian ...

The first thing you notice at Nate Otto’s Anoka house is the hearse in the driveway, a 1967 Olds 98 with tattered curtains and a rusted body. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ built for a ...

Bob Berkman has been playing the piano his whole life. He got hooked on it because his grandparents had a player piano and in his words "I thought it was the neatest thing there was and I still do". A ...

The first thing you notice at Nate Otto's Anoka house is the hearse in the driveway, a 1967 Olds 98 with tattered curtains and a rusted body. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ built for a ...

The Battlefield Boulevard shop where Ted DeWitt long coaxed music out of intricate machinery is gone. But DeWitt’s player piano repair business continues, operating out of his Chesapeake apartment and ...

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 ...

Lloyd Baker is the "pianola man". The Year 11 student from Murtoa in Western Victoria took up the hobby of restoring self-playing pianos after buying one from his music teacher. "I was getting music ...

A dozen deconstructed pianos crowd Ray Ternstrom’s workshop, their parts laid out like bones at an archeological dig. Here, the even teeth of unmoored keys. There, a riblike row of hammers awaiting ...

YOU MIGHT NOT ever have seen or heard one in the flesh, but you’ve probably seen a player piano in a movie. Even in this age of digital wizardry, there’s a special aura attached to watching a piano, ...