Assertion: player piano | /r/CapableOf | deal severe blows
Facets:
value: as a form of domestic recreation
type: PURPOSE
value: to amateur piano-playing
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: First the player piano (c. 1900), then the home phonograph (which became common in the decade before World War I), then the radio (in the 1920s) dealt severe blows to amateur piano-playing as a form of domestic recreation.