Talk:Piano roll

message: There's a few youtubes that claim to be piano rolls done by Prokofiev, some of him playing his own music.  Does anyone know of any sources that say whether or not they're real?  Should he be added to the list of composers whose works are recorded on a piano roll?
REGULAR-NORMAL (talk) 03:56, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Prokofiev

message: I agree with the merge sentiment.  -- Austin Murphy 16:53, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi PaulJones, how do you feel about merging Piano roll into Music roll?  -- Austin Murphy 18:03, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If they had to merge, I would be happier with piano roll going into Music roll.  However, I think that there is enough difference to maintain two seperate articles.  Being related, they should reference each other though. PaulJones 09:48, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: Today, "piano roll" also means a special view to sequencer tracks (e.g. in Rosegarden) where your musical events are displayed in a matrix rather than in a score. I would love to deliver a synopsis of an original Rachmaninov piano roll (where to find a scan?) and a screenshot of Rosegarden (GPL).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.27.0 (talk) 10:35, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piano roll view 

message: Can we mention that piano rolls (rolls of music for player pianos) are different from roll-up pianos and redirect to the piano article in general. Also roll-up pianos at least deserve a mention on the piano page. This is a roll-up piano http://www.buyrolluppiano.com/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.184.182.247 (talk) 03:02, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roll-up Pianos vs Piano Rolls  

message: the article says piano rolls stopped being made in 2009.
the reference for this suggests qrs stopped making them in 2009.
yet the QRS website still lists many titles available for sale, and says they are the last maker of them.
can someone clarify this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.87.143.3 (talk) 22:22, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piano rolls still made? 

message: Because of the secrecy of the roll makers' methods, the difficulty in actually capturing a performance mechanically or electro-mechanically, the acknowledged post-editing of the produced master roll, and the obvious advertising hype ("The Master's Fingers on Your Piano"), it's not incorrect to wonder if any of the reproducing rolls actually capture the performances of the artists whose names appear on the rolls. Similarly, there is the lesser issue of the provenance of early disc or cylinder audio recordings by famous instrumental performers--was it really that famous name, or was it a stand-in, playing for that disc recording? 
It is indeed possible, as demonstrated by Douglas Henderson of ARTCRAFT music rolls, and possibly others, for an expert using a Leabarjan hand-operated music roll punch to produce a "reproducing" roll that imitates very well the performance of an audio recording of piano music.
Is anyone aware of any published studies comparing the acoustic and piano-roll performances attributed to individual artists? Or studies that have sought out and evaluated business records from makers of piano rolls and acoustic records, to discover whether or not the artists themselves lent anything more than their famous names to the product? Snezzy (talk) 13:38, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reproducing rolls - actual performances? 

message: This article would be improved by more illustrations. There are a number of illustrated advertisements at http://www.pianola.org/history/history_pianoplayers.cfm, which are more than 100 years old (as shown in  the captions). The copyright, if any, on them has therefore long expired and they are in the public domain. I suggest that use of one or more such illustrations should be included with this article to better illustrate the discussion.
PraeceptorIP (talk) 15:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrations 

message: --User:Haraldmmueller 07:44, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[George Antheil]] should be mentioned