The Tallahassee Automobile Museum has another first. The Duo-Art Player Piano was a new invention in the early 1900’s. A new acquisition on display is a 1914 George Steck Duo-Art Reproducing Player Piano. 1914 was the first year that the Aeolian Company, mother company of the George Steck line of pianos at the time, manufactured the Duo-Art Pianola.
The Duo-Art Reproducing Piano was a specialized type of player piano that played with expression like a real person. Most player pianos rely on the person sitting at the piano to control the speed and dynamics, while a reproducing player piano has a lot of extra perforations in the music roll that control all dynamics from within, hence reproducing a live performance.
Come and see another first of its kind marvel at the Tallahassee Automobile Museum!
