The millennial begins pulling century-old innards from an upright beast. The piano’s action, with its felt hammers, is among ...

For the past year, Nate Otto has been re-creating a moviegoing experience that was last experienced 100 years ago. He’s been screening classic silent movies to as many people who can fit into his ...

If one judges futuristic novels of the past narrowly in terms of whether they got their predictions right, Kurt Vonnegut’s brilliant first novel, Player Piano, was not perfect. Upstate New York did ...

Navy veteran Michael Bryant has spent decades restoring forgotten instruments, but as he retires, his rare skills fade, leaving fewer experts to keep old player pianos alive in town. Molly Gilbert ...