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by rfleck 4444 days ago
See a master at work making original rolls at QRS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3FTaGwfXPM

If was a fun place to see in the 70's after watching my father rebuild our player piano.

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Interesting that they used computers to make them. It seems obvious in hindsight; player piano music is digital!
Also interesting that we had digital data storage, in the form of punched cards and tape, decades before digital computers.
Longer than that. The Jaquard loom was invented in 1801 and the player piano was first demonstrated in 1876.
excellent to see the Apple //e [1] http://youtu.be/i3FTaGwfXPM?t=4m28s