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Question for old #scifi readers.
Which story (maybe 50 years old) opened with a sentence about a tall apartment where "... a piano was playing a man"?
Like Huxley's feelies.
Google failed me and LLM (I know, but sometimes you gotta try to peek around copyright walls in the interest of 'fair use' research) invented the usual plausible but wrong answer.

#sciencefiction #pulp

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@PatrickOBeirne So, I tried Internet Archive's full-text search on text works.

https://archive.org/details/tgboas/mode/2up?q=%22a+piano+was+playing+a+man%22

"Mutiny in Space"

In a room high above the octagonal city of arcton, a piano was plaing a man. He was a small man, dazzingly bald and very handsome. He wore a bright scarlet tunic of soft pliable metal called tryium...

In The Giant Book Of Amazing Stories, The Childrens Press, 1960.

Authors aren't listed. Work appears to be public domain.

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