Saturday, November 17, 2012

Mahogany, Glass, and MIrrored Player Piano



This is a piano that was made of mahogany wood and beveled glass and mirrors. A player piano like this would be found in hotels and were quite an expensive item. By this time, they had ditched the idea of having pedals to power the playing, and those in charge of the aesthetics of it thought it looked too ridiculous to have the keys of piano going up and down when no one was sitting there, so the keys were just for looks and the playing of it was engineered to play completely inside.

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