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Then he sat down and applied himself to the property advertisements in the Signal, a form of sensational serial which usually enthralled him but not to-night. He allowed the paper to lapse on to the floor, and then rose impatiently, rearranged the thick dark blue curtains behind the radiator, and finally yielded to the silent call of the mechanical piano-player.
The difference between it and the Orpheus lay in the fact that the piano-player required hands and feet of flesh and blood for anything more than a purely mechanical rendering of the music provided by the rolls; while in the Orpheus, expression, accent, interpretation, as given by the best pianists of the day, had been already registered in the cylinders.
In increasing measure the teaching of music appreciation is coming into vogue, and as an aid to this the piano-player and gramophone are demonstrating their value. The slogan of the musical advance guard is "a gramophone in every school."
He quite knew that to dally with the piano-player while smoking a high-class cigar was to insult the cigar. But he did not care. He tilted the cigar upwards from an extreme corner of his mouth, and through the celestial smoke gazed at the titles of the new music rolls which had been delivered that day, and which were ranged on the top of the piano itself.
And after some hours he comes back, limp and worn out, but quite himself again as though he had gone through some terrible wrestle and escaped. "Mr. Sorell gave him, a little while ago, a wonderful new automatic thing a piano-player, I think they call it. It works with a roll like a musical box and has pedals. But Otto can't do much with it.
And you're a man, you must know about politics; and as for music, we'll learn about that together. Aunt Julia and Godfather are going to give us a piano-player though I know they can't afford it, the dears!" "People are good to us." Paul's flush of gratitude for his good fortune continued. "You like music, don't you?" asked Lydia. "I guess so; I don't know much about it.
From the caress in her voice, the look on her face, he became certain that she wanted something from him, uncertain whether it would be wise of him to give it her. He pushed his savoury away uneaten, and even joined her in a cigarette. After dinner she set the electric piano-player going. And he augured the worst when she sat down on a cushion footstool at his knee, and put her hand on his.
The automatic piano or piano-player which some years later became the pianola, was in those days rapidly developing.
Dora was gorgeously and flashily dressed and fairly scintillated with jewels. She seated herself not far from the door and ordered a cocktail. Then she whistled a bar of music suggestively to the piano-player, who immediately caught it, and the "orchestra" with a show of animation strummed out her suggestion. She sent over drinks for them and was rewarded with more song hits.
You could return to civilization and have a good time all the rest of your days." "Two weeks in Hong-Kong," replied McClintock, "is more than enough." "But, Lord, man! don't you ever get lonesome?" "Don't you?" "I'm too busy." "So am I. I am carrying back a hundred new books and forty new records for the piano-player.
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