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A player piano is a self-playing piano with a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls. Modern versions use MIDI. The player piano gained popularity as mass-produced home pianos increased in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [ 1]
Joshua Bassett. Mark Batson. Eric Bazilian ( The Hooters) Barry Beckett ( Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section) Drake Bell. Richard Bell ( Janis Joplin, The Band) Thom Bell. Matthew Bellamy ( Muse) Bill Berry.
Player Piano is the debut novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation partly inspired by the author's time working at General Electric, describing the negative impact technology can have on quality of life. [ 2] The story takes place in a near-future society that is almost totally ...
Johnson was born in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States. [2] He began playing the piano in 1928. [4] During World War II, [5] he joined the United States Marine Corps and became a member of Bobby Troup 's all-serviceman jazz orchestra: the Barracudas. After his service, Johnson moved to Detroit and then Chicago, where he sat in with many ...
Professional ratings. Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player is the sixth studio album by English musician Elton John. [ 7] Released in January 1973 by DJM Records, it was the first of two studio albums he released in 1973 (the second was Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, released nine months later), and was his second straight No. 1 album in the US ...
Brendan Kavanagh. Brendan Kavanagh (born October 1967 [ 2][ 3] ), also known as " Dr K " due to his PhD in English, is a British pianist and piano teacher of Irish descent. He specializes in playing and promoting the boogie-woogie genre, almost exclusively improvised, often combined with classical, jazz, blues, rock & roll, and traditional ...
This is an alphabetized list of musicians notable for playing or having played jazz piano. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. Its role is multifaceted due largely to the instrument's combined melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic capabilities [1
As a six-year-old child, Clark received piano lessons. From the age of nine years, he taught himself. At the age of 13 and while still a pupil at Chester-le-Street Grammar School, he began to play Hammond organ in working men's clubs in the northeast of England, and thereafter forged a successful career in music which included playing with a reformed Geordie which featured Brian Johnson (who ...