四级练习2012.03.25
[audio]http://sound.yywz123.com/tingbbs/cet4/cet420120325.mp3[/audio]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.
**** Hidden Message ***** they also press the piano keys
people build library piano rolls
they play with one kind or fational music they also play piano keys
people built library piano rolls
they plays one kind or fational music very good！
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