Johnson had a popular dance band when he was in college at Indiana University in Bloomington.
@acousticedison
5 ай бұрын
Quite and interesting selection for the period and the welte is as usual doing a great job.
@FionnsLifts
5 ай бұрын
Off topic: But for your O-roll orchestrion where did you find the rolls???
@DuoArtOrgan
5 ай бұрын
You can find them on ebay quite often. I got most of mine from a friend who closed his shop.
@jimthesoundman8641
5 ай бұрын
I know this is a bit off topic, but what percentage of piano rolls have been converted to midi to preserve them? I know hundreds of thousands of song rolls must have been produced. And secondly, I know a lot of rolls were reproducing rolls which were supposed to capture the intonation of the person playing, but does midi have that also? And can a reproducing roll be played on a standard player (without the added intonation), or only on a reproducing player?
@DuoArtOrgan
5 ай бұрын
There have been several individuals scanning piano rolls to preserve the music and some have scanned huge libraries of rolls. I have no idea what percentage of rolls produced have been scanned. Yes, Midi files can assign a "velocity" or loudness to each note. There are a few emulators created to turn scans of reproducing piano rolls into files that can be played on a midi operated solenoid piano while keeping the expression intact. Reproducing rolls can be played on a regular foot pumped player piano. In most cases you need to tape over the last four holes on each end of the tracker bar to keep the player system from reading and playing the control perforations that fall into the range of playing notes.
@jimthesoundman8641
5 ай бұрын
@@DuoArtOrgan That's very interesting. So reproducing rolls can only play 84 notes instead of 88?
@DuoArtOrgan
5 ай бұрын
Different systems had different numbers of playing notes. The Original Welte and Welte Licensee systems play 80 of the piano notes. @@jimthesoundman8641
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