The Evolution And Development Of "Automatic Piano"

Player piano is a special part of the history of piano. Actually, it is the derivative of the piano. Automatically without changing the piano action principle, on the basis of the original mechanical movement and sound by adding new equipments, make the piano in the absence of performers complete music playing and transmission, to enrich the functions and roles of the piano. The design and application of player piano, accompanied by the development of the times and the progress of technology, constantly updating, early pianola after several reforms, at the end of the 19 th century the early twentieth century reached heyday, but, compared with the development of the pianos way is fleeting, a flash in the pan. Because of this, people often ignore the automatic function and position in the history of the development of the piano, the study of its development is also marginalized.But, in fact, the emergence, deformation, prosperous and disappear of player piano are connected closely with the change of traditional mechanical structure, the historical position of piano, as well as transmission of music, it is easy to find that the relationship between the both influence each other, is the inevitable result of the independent development. Therefore, combing the development history of piano automatically, automatic analysis of the piano, for the impact of future generations, to enrich the history of piano has irreplaceable direct significance. This article will be born with player piano when art background and factors such as culture, science and technology level of development as a starting point, deeply and systematically comb a automatic piano’s development history, analysis of characteristics of the structure of the automatic piano and inheritance. At the same time, the paper summarizes the innovation concept and innovation of modern automatic piano functions, and shows reasonable judgment to the future development trend of automatic piano.