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标题: 四级练习2012.03.25 [打印本页]

作者: Rebecca949    时间: 2012-3-31 11:27     标题: 四级练习2012.03.25

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The holes passed over sprockets that caused hammers inside the pianola to strike the piano wires. And the vibrating wires produced music, much as they would in a standard piano.
Sometimes the player piano's mechanism could be rigged so that (1)_______________as if a ghost were sitting on the bench, playing a lively tune. Coin-operated player pianos called nickelodeons soon appeared in bars, ice-cream parlors, and poolrooms.
Customers would select a song, drop a coin into a slot and the appropriate piano roll would play the selected song. (2)_________________________________, much as they would later amass collections of records and compact discs. But as technology advanced, piano rolls and player pianos became curiosities - musty museum pieces.
And then a 108-year-old company in Buffalo, New York, called Q-R-S, the world's last mass producer of piano rolls, stopped making them. So that was the day that (3)_________________________________, in fact, die.



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作者: Besty    时间: 2012-4-11 15:39

they also press the piano keys
people build library piano rolls
they play with one kind or fational music
作者: r124532234    时间: 2012-4-15 15:42

they also play piano keys
people built library piano rolls
they plays one kind or fational music
作者: wenyinhua    时间: 2012-4-16 16:01

very  good!




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