Perforatin' Blues
By Michael Waters
| It's absolutely wonderful that modern technology is allowing us to be able to record old rolls & new music as well onto computer files and be able to place expression to the playing as well. The question is will us ordinary folk who only have player pianos be able to utilize these files, or will they be available to only the wonderful people who have a computer connected to their player piano? One thing that I have not seen covered since this group has started is a modern method of producing rolls. I would like to see if someone has done any work on using laser technology for roll production. Old roll perforators were fantastic pieces of machinery for the beginning of the century, and they still do an admirable job. But isn't there another less cumbersome method that could perforate paper, chain bridge and print words all at the same time? :) Although I don't have the expertise or the funds to do the research myself, it would be consoling to know that in 50 to 75 years that my pianos will have some new rolls to play! |
(Message sent Fri 18 Aug 1995, 13:06:51 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.) |
|
|
Mechanical
Music Digest™ Archives
