For example, a friend of mine is a piano player.

例如，我的一个朋友是钢琴演奏家。

Will you ask the piano player to come over here?

可否请弹钢琴的过来一下？

Most people these days think of the player piano as a novelty or a gimmick.

如今，大多数人认为自动钢琴是一种新奇事物或一个噱头。

What's it gonna be? I'll tell the piano player.

唱什么 我去告诉伴奏。

Tell you the truth, I've never counted them I'm just a piano player.

说实话 没数过 我只弹钢琴。

And people made all kinds of player pianos.

人们制造了各种自动演奏钢琴。

When Scott was a kid, people thought the player piano would be the future of music.

当斯科特还是个孩子的时候，人们认为自动钢琴将是音乐的未来。

By 1919, when Scott was 11, there were more player pianos being sold than regular pianos.

到 1919 年，斯科特 11 岁的时候，自动演奏钢琴的销量已经超过了普通钢琴。

We're talking about the player piano.

我们正在谈论自动钢琴。

Copyright laws in the United States were built around the player piano and the record player in equal part.

美国的版权法同样是围绕自动钢琴和电唱机制定的。

You can draw a straight line from player piano rolls to punch cards and the first computer programs.

您可以从演奏钢琴卷轴到打孔卡和第一个计算机程序绘制一条直线。

And this knocked me out when I first heard it in the archives, but he was still thinking about the player piano.

当我第一次在档案馆中听到它时，这让我震惊，但他仍然在思考自动钢琴。

A player piano for the space age.

太空时代的自动钢琴。

He told me that he taught himself to play the piano with a player piano.

他告诉我，他是用自动钢琴自学弹钢琴的。

To me, when I heard this story, I kept thinking about Scott as a kid at the player piano.

对我来说，当我听到这个故事时，我一直在想斯科特小时候弹钢琴的情景。

What you're listening to now is a special kind of player piano roll that could capture all the subtleties of human performance.

您现在听到的是一种特殊的钢琴卷帘，可以捕捉人类演奏的所有微妙之处。

But I think there's something in his music that testifies to his soul–that ghost at the keys of the player piano.

但我认为他的音乐中有一些东西证明了他的灵魂——自动钢琴琴键上的幽灵。

The machine would be a culmination of everything he'd worked on up to that point, including the player piano from his childhood.

这台机器将是他迄今为止所做的一切工作的巅峰之作，包括他童年时期的自动钢琴。

But the player piano was a kind of robot, too–one we often forget about, but an early, massively influential one that foreshadowed so much of what was to come.

但自动钢琴也是一种机器人——我们经常忘记它，但它是一种早期的、具有巨大影响力的机器人，预示着未来的发展。

He had dreams of becoming like a machine himself, attaching motors to his hand so he could play the piano faster, the kind of way only a player piano could.

他梦想自己变得像一台机器，将电机装在手上，这样他就能更快地弹钢琴，就像自动演奏钢琴才能做到的那样。