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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the fastest-rising young pianists of their generation will make Chicago a keyboard town once again this weekend.The celebrated Japanese pianist Mitsuko Uchida will appear at 7:30 p.m ...

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.