Hi MMD,  On MMD of 11.07.27 Ross Schacher asked about the possibility
of adding words to 88-note piano rolls.  I found that in general folks
are unaware of the work of Richard Stibbons, http://www.stibbons.com/ 
His site contains hundreds of piano roll songs that are karaoke ready,
i.e., you click on the note icon and you can sing the song as displayed
by VanBasco.  Interestingly most of these songs will play fairly well
on the MIDI system of my newly restored 2-manual 6-rank Wangerin pipe
organ.  I have no idea how Mr. Stibbons puts the words on the MIDI
version but the results are very successful.

If you want an almost unlimited number of KAR [karaoke] files, MIDI
files with words that end in '.kar' instead of '.mid', go to KAR
Universe.  This site contains literally thousands of KAR songs but
many of the arrangements might not be particularly suitable for your
instrument.  This is where a software program, Powertracks, comes into
play.

My grandson has been doing the work of taking a song from KAR Universe,
figuring out where the melody lies in the many tracks, isolating that
and rearranging the kar file to fit the parameters of my pipe organ.
I now have dozens of songs from KAR Universe that are karaoke ready and
can be played using the free VanBasco karaoke player.  I have a laptop
computer beside my pipe organ and a larger auxiliary monitor on top of
the organ.  At a recent Heart of America AMICA chapter meeting we had
30-plus folks who sang their hearts out to the karaoke tunes for several
hours.  All this was played on the 1928 Wangerin organ!

I, like Ross, have several songs that I would like to have a kar
version and a lot of searching has not elicited an answer.  Perhaps
Richard Stibbons could be persuaded to add more songs to his list.

Tom Hutchinson