To most people, player pianos may be fascinating for the clockwork manner they go about making music. But Richard Groman wants a little bit more. Groman, co-owner of Keystone Music Roll Company says ...

Imagine a scene in the parlor: You sit down at your turn-of-the-century player piano and start pumping the pedals. The piano roll becomes taut and then slips smoothly from one spool to the other. The ...

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 two ...

As far as dead technologies are concerned, the player piano is pretty low on the list of tragedies. Long ago virtually killed by the arrival of recorded music, the instrument, which plays itself with ...

A while back, [Jacob] played around with a player piano. After feeding a roll into the machine and trying to figure out how a fifty year old machine using hundred year old technology can replicate a ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) - With so many distractions in our lives today, it’s difficult to imagine a time when the highest form of entertainment in a home could be a piano. In fact, at Ewing Manor, the ...

The remark scribbled at the end of the production sheet said simply, "End of era." It was written shortly after the last piano roll came off the assembly line at QRS Music Technologies, 1026 Niagara ...