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  Square piano

  The square piano is a piano that has horizontal strings arranged diagonally across the rectangular case above the hammers and with the keyboard set in the long side. It is variously attributed to Silbermann and Frederici and was improved by Petzold and Babcock. Built in quantity through the 1890s ...
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  Player piano

  A player piano (also known as an autopiano) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass...
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  Keyboard instrument

  A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include various types of organs as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments. In common language, it is mostly...
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  Barrel piano

  A barrel piano (also known as a "roller piano") is a forerunner of the modern player piano. Unlike the pneumatic player piano, the barrel piano was usually by turning a hand crank, though coin operated models powered by clockwork were used to provide music in establishments such as pubs and cafés....
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  Toy piano

  The toy piano, also known as the kinderklavier (child's keyboard), is a small piano like musical instrument. The present form of the toy piano was invented in Philadelphia by a 17-year-old German immigrant named Albert Schoenhut. He worked as a repairman at Wanamaker's department store, repairing...

• Silent piano

  A silent piano is an acoustic piano where there is an option to silence the strings by means of an interposing hammer bar. They are designed for private silent practice. In the silent mode, the key movement is picked up by sensors. In older models mechanical sensors were used which affected the...