piano-playern.
/pɪˈanəʊˌpleɪə/, U.S. /piˈænoʊˌpleɪər/ 1. A person who plays the piano; a pianist.
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pianoforte player1798
piano-player1808
pianist1820
pianofortist1841
piano man?1858
tickler1962
1808 T. E. Hook Music-mad i. 16 Come to my arms, thou delightful piano player!
1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 293/2 Mozart in his younger years was hardly less great as a violinist than a piano-player.
1915 W. Cather Song of Lark i. xii. 83 An engine wiper can get a job, but a piano player! Such people can't make good.
1964 L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin x. 64 The piano-player did a fancy cadenza.
1991 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) 27 Oct. h1/1 Pressure on the wrist..hurts anyone who uses a keyboard, including piano players.
2. Originally: a device by means of which a piano may be played automatically. In later use also: a piano which plays automatically; = player-piano n.
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keyboard player1881
piano-player1898
metrostyle1903
1898 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 51 The Aeolian Company's new piano-player.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 10/1 The most rapid growth has been in mechanical piano-players and piano-playing attachments.
1920 E. Ferber Half Portions iv. 125 ‘If I could play I'd have done more...’ ‘Why don't you get one of those piano-players. What-you-call'ems?’
1986 Notes & Rec. Royal Soc. 41 100 He learnt to play a little piano by ear, though did not learn to read music and eventually acquired a mechanical piano-player.
1998 Observer (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Review section) 8 His own instrument, a Steck piano-player, obstructs the narrow hallway.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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