Disklavier

Hi

Whilst searching the net for the lastest Winrar I came across this 
site. It may help !!!!!!

http://www.hands-on-midi.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?
Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=001&Category_Code=AAHZAA

The main site is www.hands-on-midi.com
then click on "downloads" then " For free Digital Sheet music"
 then "Prelude"

You may well find some thing there.

Happy new Year

Midi Magic







--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, Scott Hamilton <scottha@p...> 
wrote:
> Well gee - I'm really greatful for all your responses! I ordered 
and now 
> have the "How to Play Piano Despite Years..." book, and indeed, it 
is a 
> worthwhile addition! Thank you Carol!
> 
> Accompaniment is not just for flutes. All solo instruments (I guess 
thats 
> ALL instruments isn't it? - including sleigh bells and sand blocks 
in Leroy 
> Anderson's pieces) are enhanced by all the rest. From sax to flute, 
we all 
> need backup. In my particular case, I was hoping to find help with 
my 
> attempt to keep up with James Galway's and Phil Coulter's Winter's 
> Crossing. Our friend Doug Miller is undertaking a "play-in" of the 
score of 
> that music so that I can try to develop with it.
> 
> We all ("non-pianists" - god how I wish I could have been inspired 
to study 
> it when I was young - now life is so short) need encouragement and 
> inspiration to keep our interest in the difficult expression of 
beautiful 
> music.
> 
> I've discovered some computer software in the past few days called 
> PhotoScore (http://www.neuratron.com/) which purports to allow some 
flatbed 
> scanners to acquire the printed score and convert to MIDI sequences 
which 
> could then be uploaded into the Disklavier via floppy disk. 
Additionally, 
> software like Steinberg's Cubase 
> 
(http://www.steinberg.net/en/ps/products/music_production/cubase_sl_ma
c/ind
> ex.php?sid=0) allows us to modify the MIDI files to assure that 
piano parts 
> are within the Disklavier's scope of understanding (we used Cubase 
today to 
> trsnslate the piano parts from MIDI channels that were not 
recognized by 
> the Disklavier on a www.classicalarchives.com piece of Brahms Piano 
> Concerto No. 1 to those MIDI channels (1 & 2) that were! So, what 
us 
> accompaniment needing folks can do is to acquire the piano portion 
through 
> scanning and conversion via PhotoScore, modify it as necessary with 
Cubase, 
> and use our Disklaviers for a most useful purpose. I have enough 
trouble 
> carving out time to practice the flute, let alone learing the piano 
late in 
> life. This seems to be somewhat of a solution barring folks who can 
provide 
> quality accompaniment in bulk.
> 
> Now, if I could yell "STOP" and retry from numer 4, we'd really 
have it. 
> Yes?
> 
> Regards...
> 
>  Scott