Sentence examples for mechanical player from inspiring English sources

A charismatic figure with a cult following, who fought in the Spanish civil war and then left anti-communist America to live in Mexico City, Nancarrow wrote most of his music for the mechanical player piano, punching his compositions out as holes into rolls of paper.

Sharing the stage with Mr. Metheny was a custom-built, circuit-wired orchestrion — a wall of mostly percussion and stringed instruments with moving parts that came to life, like the mechanical player pianos of old, without benefit of flesh-and-blood players.

Their attitude was not dissimilar to that of the 18thcentury crowds who chose to believe that an exotically robed mechanical chess player was capable of thought, long after there was evidence that a man concealed under the chess board played the automaton's moves.

There is much to learn here — about the quilted titanium fabricated for Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, for example, or about how Antonio Stradivari ran his violin workshop, or how the inventor of a mechanical flute player designed the first automated machines for weaving silk.

Her discussion of the mechanical chess player suffers by comparison with Tom Standage's more detailed account of the automaton in a recently published book; here, and again in a digressive and unoriginal analysis of a fairly obscure work by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, it is reasonable to assume that a short work required a little extra padding to bring it up a marketable size.

The Hungarian Wolfgang von Kempelen subsequently created a mechanical chess player that toured internationally over many decades, taking on Napoleon (who lost), Catherine the Great (who was disqualified for cheating) and Benjamin Franklin (outcome undocumented).

Lavish sums were spent on acquiring various instruments including the unconventional horn violin, theremin and calliaphone, a mechanical music player.

Often there's no choice between flight and fight, as, ill-equipped to deal with towering mechanical foes, players must simply sprint for safety.

"We can't correlate through mechanical tests what players perceive".

Further Questions for Discussion: -Why might it be important or valuable for engineers to "correlate through mechanical tests what players perceive"?

Some of Conlon Nancarrow's wild essays in mechanical jazz, originally for player piano, are performed in Yvar Mikhashoff's arrangements.