钢琴在早期爵士乐的发展过程中,不论是作为独奏乐器或参与不同规模的乐队重奏,部扮演着重要的角色。在上世纪的头二十年,广播电视尚未出现。当时钢琴作为主要的和声乐器,以其丰富的表现力和宽阔的音域表现能力,是美国国内器乐娱乐的主要表现形式。通过打孔纸筒机械自动地再现曲目演奏的自动演奏钢琴(playerpiano),是一种神奇的装置,就像今天的录音机一样,向听众传播拉格泰姆钢琴(爵士乐由其发展而来)的独特魅力。当时这种机械风靡一时,舞台上钢琴前没有真实的乐手出现,却能够在真实的钢琴上发出乐手演奏的声音效果。而在美国南部其它城 Piano plays an important role in the development of early jazz, either as a solo instrument or as a band ensemble of different sizes. In the first two decades of the last century, radio and television had not yet appeared. At that time, the piano as the main harmonic instrument, with its rich expressive power and wide range of performance ability, is the main form of instrumental entertainment in the United States. The automatic player pianos, played automatically by a perforated paper cylinder to reproduce tracks automatically, is a magical device that, like today’s tape recorders, broadcasts Ragtime Pianos to jazz unique charm. At a time when such machinery was all the rage, no real musician appeared in front of the piano on stage, but the sound of a musician’s play on a real piano was played. And in other cities in the southern United States