Word: pianola
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...Hofmann has found time during his best piano years for activities outside the concert hall, not only teaching but inventing mechanisms. Many a luxurious motor car bears Hofmann shock absorbers. By a Hofmann device, the finest shadings of a master's touch can be charted beside the perforations in pianola music rolls...
This evening in the Lecture Hall of the Boston Public Library as prelude to the repetition of Stravinsky's "Sacre du Printemps" at the Symphony Concerts of next week, Mr. Laurence Powell will give a lecture on the piece illustrated by pianola reproductions. The lecture is open to the public without charge...
...sketches in prose Mr. Putnam's have vigor of both thought and expression, while Mr. Cabot's have neither. Mr. Davidson's story about the pianola girl is slight, perhaps obvious, to the critic, but certainly not to the "tired College student" and the "tired business man." Mr. Mardigan's letter on military science is forceful and true; it should be read by every man who intends to condemn the Regiment. "The Regiment is gone; unmourned, to be sure, but not unappreciated...
...petition is granted, as seems probable, a contribution of $1 will be taken from each man in the hall to furnish the room in which dormitory smokers will probably be held from time to time. The room will be supplied with newspapers and periodicals and a piano and pianola...
...points from the music of Mozart and Haydn, Beethoven's immediate predecessors. Their music, typical of the taste of the eighteenth century, is more obvious, making a direct appeal and containing no suggestion of hidden meaning. To illustrate his remarks Mr. Surette played nearly the whole quartet on the pianola, laying particular stress on certain difficult and important passages...