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- Artcraft Music Rolls - Player piano music rolls. Also offers rolls for the pianola. Newsletter and product details.
- BluesTone Music Rolls - Selling reissued rare vintage player piano rolls including Ampico, Duo-Art, Welte Licensee, and A rolls, with historical, musical and technical descriptions.
- Player-Care - Selling new QRS player piano music rolls, supplies, books, videos, and CDs. Includes owner's profile, FAQ, and articles about player piano mechanisms and related topics.
- Visitabilis - Listen to brand new compositions, classic style, never played before, composed on PC only with PC-keyboard-tastatur input on a simple MS-DOS piano-roll-editor. No mouse, MIDI or piano keyboard et al. for composition was used.
- Chicago Jazz Archive - Significant collection founded in 1976 at the University of Chicago including early recordings, sheet music, photos and piano rolls, much of which is accessible online.
- Tangled Tunes: Albert W. Ketelby - Commentary on his piano roll music arrangements. Includes MIDI file.
- Celemony Software - Makers of Melodyne, a program that lets you edit audio soundwaves in a piano-roll interface.
Wikipedia Articles
- Player piano - The player piano is a piano containing a pneumatic mechanism that plays on the piano action pre-programmed music via perforated paper rolls. The true player piano was designed to be a fully interactive musical experience rather than merely an automatic instrument and hence they are fitted with interactive control levers intended for ...
- Century Rolls - Century Rolls is a 1997 piano concerto written by the American minimalist composer John Adams and commissioned by Emanuel Ax. It premiered on September 25, 1997 in Cleveland, Ohio, conducted by Cristoph von Dohnanyl and performed by Emanuel Ax on piano along with the Cleveland Orchestra.
- Ampico - Ampico (short for "American Piano Company") was one of the leading reproducing piano technologies of the early 20th century, the others being Duo-Art and Welte. A number of distinguished classical and popular pianists, such as Rachmaninoff, recorded for Ampico, and their rolls are a legacy of 19th century and early 20th century aesthetic and musical practice.
- Henry Ragas - Henry Ragas (1891-1919) was a jazz pianist who played with the Original Dixieland Jazz Band on their earliest recording sessions. As such, he is the very first jazz pianist to be recorded (not counting piano rolls), although his contributions are barely audible due to the primitive recording equipment available.
- QRS Records - QRS Records is a United States record label which produced notable jazz and blues recordings in the early twentieth century. The QRS company began in 1900 as a manufacturer of piano rolls, and their record label was established in 1928 by Arthur Satherly, who had been an executive at Paramount Records.