An enterprising Canadian has been digitizing player piano music rolls and converting them into MIDI files. Terry Smythe has built a custom scanner to read and convert the rolls. His site includes pictures of the scanner and description of the process. You can also download all of the MIDI files he has created.
The MIDI format is a well-documented, stable communication standard for keyboard-based music. Actually, it is a lot more. Read about MIDI in WikiPedia
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Posted by Paul H at May 13, 2005 01:00 PM
