Introduction
By Bill Jelen
Greetings to all and thanks to Jody & Terry for starting a great list. I have been a fan of player pianos since I could reach the pedals to pump my folk's player piano 25 years ago. I bought an old pumper of my own about 7 years ago. Although the roll collection at home was mostly ragtime, I started collecting the newer "rock" releases offered by QRS. When neither QRS nor Playrite offered one song I really wanted, I wrote a program to print the holes on blank roll paper and used an exacto knife to cut the roll by hand. Later, I was introduced to Richard Tonnesen. His computer controlled perforator eliminated the exacto knife from the process. Since then, I have been releasing a few tunes each year on the Bam-Bam label. Initially I released rock and roll, but added a few rags and marches to the catalog last year. My main interest is releasing songs that were never available elsewhere on piano roll.
I do roll arranging on an IBM PC equipped with a Gravis Ultrasound Max soundcard. I use Midiscan music recognition software to get the score into the computer (a time-saver, but a lot of editing is required). I also have a MIDI keyboard which I occassionally use to record a live performance.
Clean-up and further arranging is accomplished by bouncing the file back and forth from MIDI to a spreadsheet. When editing is finished, I have a program to spin off the event files that are sent to Richard for perforating.
I'm looking forward to great discussions in the AMI list. --Bill Jelen (bjelen8875@aol.com / bjele@telxon.com) |
(Message sent Sun 30 Apr 1995, 17:16:54 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.) |
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