[ARSCLIST] Pianorolls, was: Memorex CDs and more!

[Lou Judson <loujudson@xxxxxxx>]

This is fascinating topic. I worked with the Musee Mechanique in SF 
recording all their unique and unusual instruments a couple of years 
ago:

http://www.museemechanique.org/machines.html - the souvenir recordings 
we made were mic'd playbacks in the museum, perhaps not archival 
quality, but very real and genuine...

And after learning more than I ever imagined about how the machines are 
maintianed and operated from the curator, Dan Zelinsky, wonder about a 
few things in releasing recordings... such as adjusting the speed and 
tracking of the rolls, all the timing and tuning issues, and so on.

I may have missed part of the thread (due to unchanged subject lines!) 
so where can I find ou tmore about the one you are talking about here? 
(offlist if preferred).

Thanks,

Lou

Lou Judson • Intuitive Audio
415-883-2689

On Jan 18, 2006, at 9:43 AM, Tom Fine wrote:

> Hi Karl:
>
> This is fascinating. Do you play the rolls back on a vintage player 
> piano or use a modern digital-translation system?
>
> Also, who else did piano rolls? Didn't someone release an album of 
> Gershwin playing his own pieces from a set of rolls or was that 
> someone else? I remember there being a lot of mainstream media about 
> something involving "lost" rolls found and recorded for CD a few years 
> ago.
>
> -- Tom Fine