"Listen to that old piano roll…"

Posted on Apr 30, 2006 | 1 comment
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This is via a friend of mine (who blogs in the form of an email list). Engineer and music lover Warren Trachtman has developed a way to scan old, deteriorating player piano rolls, and convert them to MIDI files that can be played on any device, or even used to create new paper rolls. In his words… There is a tremendous amount of wonderful music from the...

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The manDrum

Posted on Aug 29, 2005 | 0 comments
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My old friend Chris Mandra appeared out of nowhere this weekend, announcing that he was in San Francisco and on the way to Burning Man. When I say “old”… he was among my first friends when I arrived at the University of the Arts as a freshman, so we’re talking exactly twenty years now. Holy moly. So, Chris is an interesting guy. He has...

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