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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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TazeTSchnitzel
4444 days ago
Interesting that they used computers to make them. It seems obvious in hindsight; player piano music is digital!
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userbinator
4444 days ago
Also interesting that we had digital data storage, in the form of punched cards and tape, decades before digital computers.
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vajrabum
4444 days ago
Longer than that. The Jaquard loom was invented in 1801 and the player piano was first demonstrated in 1876.
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chillingeffect
4444 days ago
excellent to see the Apple //e [1]
http://youtu.be/i3FTaGwfXPM?t=4m28s
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