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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pianola
noun
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▪ They moved in sequence like the keys on an antique pianola when the pedals are operated.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pianola

c.1896, trademark name (1901) of a player piano, from piano, the ending perhaps abstracted from viola and meant as a diminutive suffix. The pianola's popularity led to a rash of product names ending in -ola, especially Victrola (q.v.), and slang words such as payola.

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pianola

n. 1 (context music English) A mechanical piano which uses a roll of perforated paper to operate its keys, instead of being played by a pianist. 2 (context bridge English) A hand that is easy to play, i.e. one that "plays itself".

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Pianola (L'Aquila)

Pianola is a small village near L'Aquila, Abruzzo in central Italy. It is situated in the Apennine Mountains at above sea level.

Usage examples of "pianola".

The import house sent along at its own expense an Italian expert, Pietro Crespi, to assemble and tune the pianola, to instruct the purchasers in its functioning, and to teach them how to dance the latest music printed on its six paper rolls.

One morning, without opening the door, without calling anyone to witness the miracle, he placed the first roll in the pianola and the tormenting hammering and the constant noise of wooden lathings ceased in a silence that was startled at the order and neatness of the music.

José Arcadio Buendía was as if struck by lightning, not because of the beauty of the melody, but because of the automatic working of the keys of the pianola, and he set up Melquíades’ camera with the hope of getting a daguerreotype of the invisible player.

On the eve of his departure a farewell dance for him was improvised with the pianola and with Rebeca he put on a skillful demonstration of modern dance, Arcadio and Amaran­ta matched them in grace and skill.

They showed her the remodeled mansion, they had her listen to the rolls on the pianola, and they offered her orange marmalade and crackers.

She was able to see the name of the Estimable Señorita Rebeca Buendía, written in the same method­ical hand, with the same green ink, and the same delicacy of words with which the instructions for the operation of the pianola were written, and she folded the letter with the tips of her fingers and hid it in her bosom, looking at Amparo Moscote with an expression of endless and unconditional gratitude and a silent promise of complicity unto death.

Weeping with rage, she cursed the day that it had occurred to her to buy the pianola, and she forbade the embroidery lessons and decreed a kind of mourning with no one dead which was to be prolonged until the daughters got over their hopes.

Much time passed in that way without anyone’s seeing him in the house except on the night when he made a pathetic effort to fix the pianola, and when he would go to the river with Arcadio, carrying under his arm a gourd and a bar of palm oil soap wrapped in a towel.

The old mansion, painted white since the time they had brought the pianola, took on the strange look of a mosque.

Aureliano Segundo gave her not only the money from the special raffle, but also what he had managed to put aside over the previous months and what little he had received from the sale of the pianola, the clav­ichord, and other junk that had fallen into disrepair.

It is common talk that my pianola was the chief thing about me which attracted Celia.

As arranged for the pianola, it was marked to be played throughout at a lightning pace and with the loudest pedal on.

And in our case, curiously enough, absence from the pianola did not make the heart grow fonder.

On the contrary, we seemed to lose our taste for music, and when at last we were restored to our pianola, we found that we had grown out of it.

Amy sat on the piano stool, cooling her little white face with a blue lace fan which she'd taken from the curio cabinet, and rigidly watched the mechanical thumping of the pianola keys.