To: MinuteGal
I don't know how far back the reproducing player piano goes but my piano teacher had three reproducing baby grands. She had a Duo-Art, Welte-Mignon and Ampico. There were extra holes in the player piano rolls that encoded such things as finger pressure, attack and subtle pedaling. I heard some recordings by Gershwin and it was as though he were sitting on the bench and really making those keys fly up and down. It was amazing!
10 posted on
03/21/2007 8:42:28 PM PDT by
Socratic
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To: Socratic
I THOUGHT I had heard about some reproduction attempts many years ago. I never knew if the attempts were genuine or just experiments or maybe even hoaxes to sell records. Then it went out of my mind till this article was posted......but the subject still interests me.
Thanks for your input.
Leni
11 posted on
03/22/2007 6:02:38 AM PDT by
MinuteGal
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