I cover finance, the law, and how the two interact. Consider the player piano. When it arrived on the scene in the late 19th century, music publishers were horrified by this new machine that allowed ...

Say “player piano” and you are probably thinking of a pizza parlor and the tinny plinka-plinka of mechanical ragtime. Say “reproducing piano” and the response is probably, “What’s that?” Yet the ...

STANFORD — Stanford University wants to unlock the secrets of the player piano, which brought recorded music into living rooms long before there were cassettes, compact discs or iPods. Stanford ...

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford University wants to unlock the secrets of the player piano, which brought recorded music into living rooms long before there were cassettes, compact discs or iPods.

URBANA — You may have seen a player piano, but it's unlikely you ever saw one like this. The 1927 piano is a treasure of the University of Illinois Music and Performing Arts Library and has a room of ...