Push-up player

Push-up player, Welte-Mignon , approx. 1906

A push-up device is an automaton that operates the keys of an electric piano and thus replaces a human pianist . The automated game is controlled by piano rolls , which are transported by means of negative pressure and converted into movements of the key pens.

Manufacturers of such push-up players were among others the companies Ludwig Hupfeld AG , M. Welte & Sons and the American Piano Company .

See also

• Pianola , pianolist
• Reproduction piano

literature

• Peter Hagmann: The Welte Mignon piano, the Welte Philharmonie organ and the beginnings of music reproduction . University Library, Freiburg / B. 2002 (also dissertation, University of Basel 1982)
• Herbert Jüttemann: Mechanical musical instruments. Introduction to technology and history . Dohr, Cologne 2010, ISBN 978-3-936655-65-0 .