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rfleck
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Transcribing Piano Rolls, the Pythonic Way
See a master at work making original rolls at QRS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3FTaGwfXPM
If was a fun place to see in the 70's after watching my father rebuild our player piano.
TazeTSchnitzel
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Interesting that they used computers to make them. It seems obvious in hindsight; player piano music is digital!
userbinator
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Also interesting that we had digital data storage, in the form of punched cards and tape, decades before digital computers.
vajrabum
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Longer than that. The Jaquard loom was invented in 1801 and the player piano was first demonstrated in 1876.
chillingeffect
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excellent to see the Apple //e [1]
http://youtu.be/i3FTaGwfXPM?t=4m28s
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If was a fun place to see in the 70's after watching my father rebuild our player piano.