When I arrived, everyone was there except the piano player, so Berry played it.

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When band leader Orlando Marin told his group they had their first gig, they almost couldn't go because the piano player couldn't get permission from his mother.

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While you are here: Enjoy afternoon tea offered in the hotel lobby and relax to the sounds of the grand piano player or harpist.

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The player-piano rolls in the transmitter (aboard the ship) and receiver (in the torpedo) would be started at exactly the same moment, and would then stay synchronised after launch, providing a secure radio link from the ship to the torpedo.

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The first wine I encountered was Pommery Champagne, stacked in a pile of boxes across from an automatic player piano, which kept unspooling the same unidentifiable song.

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There simply had never been anything quite like it before, as the horn player ditched the harmonic foundation traditionally provided by piano or guitar and ventured forth with just a drummer and bassist in tow.

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And here's someone who many people don't know for his proficiency on this instrument, and many say he was a better piano player than he was a singer, and that's the great Nat King Cole, who falls number 24 on this list.

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His piano player is Ariacne Trujillo, a woman who often chats during songs with Alvaro Benavides, the bassist.

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PianoDisc, which is one of few modern-day makers of player piano systems (Others include: Pianoforce, Yamaha, and QRS), hires the leading interpreters of some of the greatest composers to make a specific piece for the company.

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