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And lest she should begin to thank him he got out of his chair and went up to the piano-player making that noise! It ran down, as he reached it, with a faint buzz. That musical box of his nursery days: "The Harmonious Blacksmith," "Glorious Port" the thing had always made him miserable when his mother set it going on Sunday afternoons.
There was a grand piano in the place of honor, presided over by a mechanical piano-player; and Penelope went into ecstasies of mockery. "Wait till I can find the music scrolls, and I'll hypnotize you," she said gleefully; and Kent and Elinor beat a hasty retreat to the wide entrance hall.
"I'm sorry I made Len sore." The blond man spoke contritely. Then his voice snapped into animosity. "He's worth a dozen Paul Burtons, the vapid little piano-player." "Right-o!" Thayre stood with his feet well apart and his baldish head thrown back.
They'd come a-running, Bud, from every joint and dance-hall, enough to run a battleship in no time, yes, sir. Why, Bud, even that squash-head of a piano-player would 'a' come if we'd ast him." "H-m-m you surely think well of people, Baldy." "No more strain than to think bad of 'em. But what'd be the use? Us two an' old Pete, who'll be sleepin' aboard, c'n run her, Bud."
They're there every night, goin' to their death somewhere out to sea, but how c'n we help it?" "We can help it." Harty stood up "Fine men we are, all of us." Ting-a-ling-a-ling-a-tump-ti Ting-a-ling-a-ling-a-tump-ti came from the piano. Harty whirled around. "And as for you!" He picked up the spare pack and hurled them at the fat piano-player. "Blast you! Yes, you I said you, didn't I shut up!
For all practical purposes the ten fingers of a piano-player are the ten players in an orchestra; and, according to the force with which each finger strikes the note, is the prominence given to its effects. An air or a motif may be brought out with emphasis by one set of fingers, while the others are playing an accompaniment with all sorts of delicate gradations of softness and emphasis.
The garden door had no sooner closed on Falloden than Radowitz threw himself back, and went into a fit of laughter, curious, hollow laughter. Sorell looked at him anxiously. "What's the meaning of that, Otto?" "You'll laugh, when you hear! Falloden and I are going to set up house together, in the cottage on Boar's Hill. He's going to read and I'm to be allowed a piano, and a piano-player.
But I like to leave well enough alone, and if I had to make a change right now it would require a whole lot of thought and attention, to say nothing of the inconvenience, and I'm so nicely settled in my flat." Suddenly her eye lighted on the pianola. Going to it, she exclaimed: "Say, dearie, when did you get the piano-player? I got one of them phonographs, but this has got that beat a city block.
When the artist is present in person we need no effort of the imagination, and though the machine can give us a personal rendering it can never offer us the personality. In much the same way the mechanical piano-player may give So-and-so's exact rendering if only we follow the requisite directions, but it is impossible for it to be the same.
He wasn't a dago; he was a Russian count this was straight; and he wasn't a professional piano-player or anything of the sort. He played the violin and the piano, and he sang sang well but it was for his own pleasure and for the pleasure of those he sang for. He had money, too and right here let me say that Flush of Gold never cared a rap for money. She was fickle, but she was never sordid.
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