Disklavier

On 27 May 2003 "Carol Beigel" <carolrpt@...> said:

> Thank you, and the others who have developed this technique,
> for providing an immeasureable contribution to the
> preservation of player piano music.  I bought my Disklavier
> so I could hear such music.  I have been enjoying your files
> all afternoon!  Thank you for posting them - and free at
> that! 

Thank you for your kind words, appreciated.    Glad you like the 
music.     It has been my objective from the beginning to make 
my scans freely available.     Goes back to a 14 year old dream.

> Were there any player piano rolls made from the music on the
> Vitaphone recordings?  I believe these were the soundtrack
> recording disks to the early Warner Brother's movies in the
> 1930's. 

Player piano rolls could not have been made from disc 
recordings.    Vice-versa possibly.     More likely the music of 
that era would have appeared in production rolls by its 
conventional process.     Music rolls continued to be in 
production up into the late 30's, albeit in sharply reduced 
numbers, following the industry collapse in late 1929/1930.

If you have some tune titles in mind, let me know.   Outside 
chance they may be found in somebody's roll catalog of the 
period.

Regards,

Terry




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