"street piano" meaning in English

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        "A piano placed in a public area to encourage passers-by to stop and play."
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          "ref": "1854, Herbert Spencer, “Manners and Fashion”, in Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, published 1858, page 148:",
          "text": "Who that has lived thirty years in the world has not discovered that Pleasure is coy; and must not be too directly pursued, but must be caught unawares? An air from a street-piano, heard while at work, will often gratify more than the choicest music played at a concert by the most accomplished musicians.",
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          "ref": "1916, T. S. Eliot, “Portrait of a Lady”, in Alfred Kreymborg, editor, Others: An Anthology of the New Verse, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, page 36:",
          "text": "I keep my countenance, / I remain self-possessed / Except when a street piano, mechanical and tired / Reiterates some worn-out common song […]",
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          "ref": "1921, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 8, in Sea and Sardinia, New York: Thomas Seltzer, page 349:",
          "text": "But hist! the [marionette show] is going to begin. A lad is grinding a broken street-piano under the stage.",
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        "A mechanical piano used by street entertainers, operated with a crank that turned a wooden cylinder from which leather hammers were thrown against the strings."
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        "(historical) A mechanical piano used by street entertainers, operated with a crank that turned a wooden cylinder from which leather hammers were thrown against the strings."
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