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Example sentences for "pianola"

Lexicographically close words:
pianner; pianny; piano; pianoforte; pianofortes; pianos; pianta; pianto; pias; piaster
  1. The finding of the pianola suggested that we give another baile that night, in the portico of the Casa Grande itself.

  2. As soon as the orchestra had finished a dance, the pianola immediately took up the task.

  3. Pablo had found a pianola in the church, where it had escaped Che Che Campa's notice the previous year; with it was one roll, the "Merry Widow Waltz.

  4. He goes to the pianola and starts to play the sextette from "Florodora.

  5. They come away from the pianola together, to a big arm-chair.

  6. At eleven o'clock she kissed her father good-night and passed out to the hall, where the pianola was still going, and where the merriment was still in full swing.

  7. I am merely saying that the pianola way of dealing with ignorance, in my own case, up to the present at least, does not grow on me.

  8. As a sort of pianola or æolian attachment for a library, as a mechanical contrivance for making a comparatively ignorant man draw perfectly enormous harmonies out of it (which he does not care anything about), a modern librarian helps.

  9. The construction of the pianola will then correspond to the physical constitution of the brain.

  10. But now we come to a fact than which none is better known, none more absolutely verifiable in experience, but to which there is nothing in the least analogous in the pianola or any other piece of mechanism taken by itself.

  11. Suppose that the music-rolls of a pianola were made of different sizes and shapes according to the different classes of music.

  12. This day Rennick, smiling from ear to ear, came across the ice with the pianola in bits conveyed on a couple of sledges.

  13. Illustration: First notes of the “Traumerei” on a Pianola roll.

  14. A Pianola is operated by suction, through the exhaustion of air from a bellows normally distended by springs as shown in 5 in the accompanying illustration.

  15. And in our case, curiously enough, absence from the pianola did not make the heart grow fonder.

  16. It is common talk that my pianola was the chief thing about me which attracted Celia.

  17. A pianola isn't tuneful if you never play it.

  18. For years the pianola was not played by either of us.

  19. I have business to discuss with Mr. Tembarom, and the pianola was being played down-stairs--rather loudly.

  20. The young woman from the notion counter had company; and one of her guests was playing "He sut'nly was Good to Me" on the pianola with loud and steady tread of pedal.

  21. There was fire and light in the dining-room at Blodgett's from seven to nine always, and in the parlour with the pianola on Saturday evening and all day Sunday.

  22. Wilkinson would open the door into the darkened room, push away the pianola and sing topical songs to his own accompaniment until his stiffened fingers clattered on the keys.

  23. There was also a pianola which gave the place a tone.

  24. The great scheme for marginal indices would never be patented, the duets with the pianola would never be played again.

  25. And did you notice how beautifully my pianola rolls are all numbered and catalogued?

  26. There isn't any wheat or chaff or anything of that sort in the barn, and there never will be again: there's just a pianola and a dancing floor, and if a cow came into this farmyard everybody in the place would be shooing it out again.

  27. Mr. Britling sat down to a pianola in the corner and began the familiar cadences of "Whistling Rufus.

  28. Only the pianola did all the duet itself, and in the hands of a small Britling was apt to betray a facetious moodiness; sudden alternations between extreme haste and extreme lassitude.

  29. His eyes fall on the pianola in surprise.

  30. To the rear of this door, a pianola on a raised platform.

  31. He goes to the pianola and puts in a roll.

  32. As supper time approached some kindly-disposed person would sit down and play on the Broadwood pianola which was one of our blessings, and so it was that we came to supper with good tempers as well as keen appetites.

  33. Stephen stands at the pianola on which sprawl his hat and ashplant.

  34. The pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time the prelude of My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl.

  35. Twice loudly a pandybat cracks, the coffin of the pianola flies open, the bald little round jack-in-the-box head of Father Dolan springs up.

  36. Mild, benign, rectorial, reproving, the head of Don John Conmee rises from the pianola coffin.

  37. My first experience of the pianola was at the Universal Provider's.

  38. Such conversation as there is, is amply accompanied by the pianola and the gramophone.

  39. The pianola started up, and Buckin' Billy, who called the dances, began to bawl invitations to the company to come and waltz.

  40. Someone bustled in with a torrent of talk, and the pianola was drowned in a pandemonium of shouts and laughter.

  41. The Gold Nugget Saloon was flaring with light, and a pianola was perforating a tune.

  42. Outside it was broad day, but still the Gold Nugget lights were flaring and the pianola played.

  43. But if you want a pianola that will enable you to play any copyrighted music at all, you must buy it from us; for there is not another party in the United States that can sell you one of those machines.

  44. After they had eaten all they wanted she made the pianola play this song: "The clover patch is in full bloom With juicy red-topped clover.

  45. As soon as the pianola saw him it stopped right then and there, and the rabbits jumped into the cupboard and closed the door and turned the key on the inside before you could say "Jack Rabbit.

  46. Madam Doughretti had just fed the Punk Lady waltz into the pianola for the fourth time as we pulls up at the curb.

  47. We'd gone clear through the menu, and they was finishin' up their cordials, when I spots the waiter comin' with a slip of paper on his tray as long as a pianola roll.

  48. In front of window at end of pianola is thrown a lot of old empty boxes, such as are used for stocking and shirtwaist boxes.

  49. In front of the table is a small gilt chair; in front of desk there is also a small gilt chair; there is a pianola piano, on top of which is a bundle of music-rolls.

  50. Hanging over the pianola was a photograph of Mr. Jesup, and on the side wall was one of President Roosevelt, autographed.

  51. Since my return some one has asked me if I played on the pianola in my cabin that first day at sea.

  52. The pianola has been his special care, and it shows well that he should give so much pains in putting it right for us.

  53. The pianola is being brought in sections, but I'm not at all sure it will be worth the trouble.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pianola" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.