street-piano

"Cross your fingers everybody," and once more he did the street-piano act, as Ed termed it.

The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island Margaret Penrose

And when Laddie did, Mrs. Whipple remembered having heard her husband tell about the two little lost children who came into his department store after a street-piano monkey had spoiled a little girl's hat.

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City Laura Lee Hope

From below came the loud, rasping notes of a street-piano that, in some incomprehensible fashion, had wandered to the deserted row of houses.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

In current exhibitions a few canvases strike a new note; and by senses delicately attuned this note can be distinguished within the jangle of far louder and popular tunes ground out, as it were, by the street-piano.

The Enjoyment of Art Carleton Eldredge Noyes 1911

I don't care whether you make fifty thousand a year with your music writing, or whether you grind a street-piano with a tin-cup on top.

The Thing from the Lake 1903

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.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861