Music Feature - Rolls, Records and the Return of Myra Hess

Christopher Cook tells the story of the player-piano industry.

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...of Myra Hess. Christopher Cook tells the story of the player-piano industry and explains how the instruments found their way from bars and brothels to the homes of high society.

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