Items in the University Library
History and Reference Works
- 400 of the best ads of 1911 devoted to pianos and player-pianos
- The art of the player-piano: a text-book for student and teacher
- Inventing entertainment: the player piano and the origins of an American musical industry
- Pianola: the history of the self-playing piano
- Pianos and their makers: a comprehensive history of the development of the piano from the monochord to the concert grand player piano
- The piano-player and its music
- Player piano treasury; the scrapbook history of the mechanical piano in America as told in story, pictures, trade journal articles and advertising
- Re-enacting the artist; a story of the Ampico reproducing piano
- Reproducing pianos past and present
- Sound conversations: print media, player pianos, and early radio in the United States
Catalogs
- The Ampico in music study
- Catalog of the reproducing piano roll collection, International Piano Archives at Maryland
- Catalogue of artists record music rolls for the Ampico, Artigraphic, and Stoddard-Ampico player pianos. July 16, 1916.
- The Classical reproducing piano roll: a catalogue-index
- Music for the Aeolian grand
- Q.R.S. player rolls for all player pianos: complete to July 1, 1918, Quality Real Service.
Composers Writing for or Performing on Player or Reproducing Piano
Technical Information and Repair Manuals
- Player piano servicing & rebuilding: a treatise on how player pianos function, and how to get them back into top playing condition if they don’t work
- Player piano; the history of the mechanical piano and how to repair it
- Rebuilding the player piano
- A technical treatise on piano player mechanism; together with some detailed description of various types of exterior and interior players, embracing manual, pneumatic, automatic, mechanical and electric.
- Treasures of mechanical music