After they’re made by Wolfgang Heisig in Germany, the player piano rolls will be played on the 1928 Marshall & Wendell piano owned by the Music Heritage Center.

Some of the bigger machines could play rolls that contained up to ten songs, strung together one after another, while smaller pianos could only play rolls containing a single song at a time. After ...

Player pianos in the Pacific Northwest have had particularly hard lives, according to Bryant, mainly because of the ash from the eruption of Mount St. Helens. More player piano rolls.

Player piano, pianola and reproducing piano are names sometimes used interchangeably, but the piano in the library is a reproducing piano, made by Duo-Art, which also made rolls.

When she learned about the piano’s presence, Eagle resident Tenie Chacoine donated her trove of player piano rolls. “She had ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ and ‘Beer Barrel Polka’ and ‘Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,’ ...

It is estimated that by 1918 there were 800,000 player pianos in operation in America east of the Mississippi River alone, with 75,000 piano rolls sold every month in Philadelphia, according to ...

“They say the piano roll just remembers the notes. The rest is up to you,” Otto said. HOME ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM The classic player piano, or pianola, was first developed at the end of the 19th ...

What do you do with 100 player piano rolls but no player piano? You come up with a way to digitize the information for MIDI playback. The rolls have 90 columns worth of holes, 88 for the keys and ...

Unlike a player piano, the pianola can be hooked up to a regular piano to play punched paper rolls and control pitch and speed.

Remember player pianos? Meet the millennial keeping them alive in Minnesota A young Minnesotan is trying to save a rare instrument that once was in every living room.

On any given night at Mount Vernon's new Sing-A-Long Bar & Grill, visitors might find Mount Vernon Main Street and Marketing Director Joe Jennison holding court at a player piano, leading staff ...