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 … ...

This kind of product could be useful for a musician who records a song, then uploads it to get the sheet music -- that way, ...

Piano rolls are the world’s longest-lasting recording medium, and its first digital one. They were mass-produced from 1896 to 2008, and you can still get some made today, although they’re a ...

Walter Heebner, a veteran record producer who gave new life to a series of unique early 20th-century piano-roll recordings that captured the nuances of original performances by Paderewski, Mahler ...

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 ...

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… ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...