[MinuteGal]

I listen to FM classical music whenever I can.....and have been doing so all my adult life.

I swear I heard about this technique many, many years ago.....maybe not with all the digital stuff, but music recreated and recorded as it was played by famous pianists/composers even going back to Chopin and Liszt.,,,complete with the approximate finger pressures, etc.

Am I dreaming this?

Leni

[Socratic]

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!

[ADemocratNoMore]

I've has this idea for many years now, alas I am not a programmer and the few people I mentioned it to just look at me kinda glassy-eyed so I've filed it away in the might have been bin for the time being. My concept is to use the musical information found in a recording as control signals for virtual instruments.

As far as >"music recreated and recorded as it was played by famous pianists/composers even going back to Chopin and Liszt", have you ever heard of Rosemary Brown?. I have read one of her books, it does give one pause.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Brown_(spiritualist)