fenderf4i
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Ordered as well! This is great!
Thank you for the very interesting and informative post. I wonder whether even more could be recovered from the rolls with the techniques used to process piano rolls in the Rachmaninoff's "A Window in Time" CD.
I hadn't heard about this CD. I'm looking at it now on Amazon. Is it worth picking up? Not so much detail on Amazon... Please advise.
Thank you for the very interesting and informative post. I wonder whether even more could be recovered from the rolls with the techniques used to process piano rolls in the Rachmaninoff's "A Window in Time" CD.
I ended up downloading this from Presto, got a favor to ask anyone w/ the disc… if you wouldn't mind posting what was recorded when/where, I'd certainly appreciate it! It's a great listen, for sure.
A couple of years ago, my Dad and I had the family player piano restored. It's an ordinary 88-note player, not a good reproducing piano, but it's still fun. It isn't just trying to reproduce the sound that was captured - it's playing new sounds. Almost all of our 60 and 70 year old rolls still play - we'll see if MP3 does as well, eh?
Every time we get it running, we have a good time. It gets attention at every party. The fact that it's entirely pneumatic is somehow part of the magic, and fascinates a lot of people. The waltzes and polkas my great-grandparents and grandparents danced through the depression and world war 2 still get people moving.
You also get your cardio for the day. =)
I've got one of the Gershwin albums mentioned above, and I'll get these, too. I buy actual rolls once in a while, too! Early digital recording. =)
Thanks for sharing this with us! I'd have missed it.