

The Wilcox and White player was called the Angelus, whileĪeolian marketed the Aeriol Piano (later called the Aeriola), which was designed and built by Theodore P. White and the Aeolian Company sold a few. Standard built-in player pianos can be traced back to the late 1890s, and both Wilcox and The 1880s, but these were not what we would think of today as normal player pianos. Pain, who seems to have been a one-man Aeolian Company Experimental Department in the late nineteenth century, built a few electrical interior players, even as early as New pianos for the simple purpose of playing music rolls. They were not initially available in the best known makes of piano, and because most music lovers already had their own instruments, and did not want to buy completely Mentioned on our Piano Players page, the complete instruments were actually the first to be built and sold, but they failed to take the markets by storm, because ItĪlso means that everything remains more reliably in adjustment, and that the pianolist sits at the same instrument from which the audible music issues forth.

This applies equally to grands and to uprights, and it saves the inconvenience of having two separate pieces of furniture for the one purpose.

Whereas a Piano Player sits in front of a normal piano, and plays it by means of a set of felt-covered fingers, a Player Piano has all the mechanisms built Party Time at the Player Piano - Pianauto Music Roll Leader, Brazil, c.1920.
