The first thing you notice at Nate Otto’s Anoka house is the hearse in the driveway, a 1967 Olds 98 with tattered curtains and a rusted body. Inside is a small, 100-year-old reed organ built for a ...

Joe Rinaudo is doing everything to ensure his passion for photoplayers, the self-playing pianos that scored silent movies, ...

The Battlefield Boulevard shop where Ted DeWitt long coaxed music out of intricate machinery is gone. But DeWitt’s player piano repair business continues, operating out of his Chesapeake apartment and ...

Bob Berkman has been playing the piano his whole life. He got hooked on it because his grandparents had a player piano and in his words "I thought it was the neatest thing there was and I still do". A ...

Imagine a scene in the parlor: You sit down at your turn-of-the-century player piano and start pumping the pedals. The piano roll becomes taut and then slips smoothly from one spool to the other. The ...

Steinway, the gold standard for pianos, is now offering its year-old Spirio player piano in Chicago—for anyone in the market for a self-playing piano with virtuoso-level quality, minus the virtuoso.

Getting into a top music school like UCLA (where John Williams studied) or Boston College (where conductor Robert J. Ambrose studied) requires more than a demo tape. Tiny nuances distinguish the very ...

For too long, player piano-human interactions have been a one-way conversation. But thanks to a little techno-tinkering, this no longer need be the case. Sing for Hope Pianos, an annual art project ...

MILWAUKEE -- When those we love leave us, the things they touched become more precious. For Karen Fields, that thing is a Schulz Player Baby Grand Piano -- a favorite of her late husband. A water leak ...