A while back, [Jacob] played around with a player piano. After feeding a roll into the machine and trying to figure out how a fifty year old machine using hundred year old technology can replicate … ...

Also “piano roll’ display to the screen, as that is a help when pumping to see breaks and accents. Report comment. Reply. zuul says: December 26, 2014 at 1:30 am ...

FROM player pianos to VCRs, the law has always played catch-up with new entertainment technology. But will the courts bend in time to save Napster? Music freeloaders surfed cyberspace in sorrow las… ...

From 1916 to 1927, American composer George Gershwin produced 130 piano rolls for use with player pianos in saloons and living rooms across the country. Twelve of those piano rolls, played with ...

TEXARKANA -- Texarkana's Regional Music Heritage Center will keep on scrolling with the acquisition of 27 piano rolls' worth of native son and composer Conlon Nancarrow's work.

Fortunately, George Gershwin’s own interpretations of his music have been preserved in a variety of recordings, each documenting how the composer wanted his music to be performed and how far ...

Realized by Artis Wodehouse Hal Leonard, 1999 ISBN 0-7935-9887-7. By using MIDI technology with collector’s copies of the original player piano paper rolls, Artis Wodehouse has created the written ...

Both of these Maple Leaf Rag recordings are made from piano rolls released in 1916. The edited roll was published by Connorized, and the unedited version by the Aeolian Company. Scott Joplin was ...

The court said that because humans couldn’t read player piano rolls, they were not in fact copies, and as a result, composers like Sousa couldn’t demand any royalties. Advertisement.

A close-up of a player piano roll. After serving as a sonar officer in a nuclear submarine, Michael Bryant pursued craftsmanship, restoring pianos during the 1970s ragtime revival sparked by The ...