Votey who invented in 1896 the first practical pneumatic piano player, called the Pianola. This was in all probability due to the lack of suitably flexible airtight material to translate the air flow into the mechanical movement needed to trigger the player device. Surprisingly, the missing component was the pneumatic reading of the roll. However, it was to be 20 years before all these aspects were combined. As of 1876, in Philadelphia, three working devices were exhibited that between them contained almost all the components that the final player piano would require.
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