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Wednesday, April 6

Pia, Pia, Piano....

This guy scans in vintage piano rolls, converts the bitmaps to MIDI instructions, and then outputs MIDI files, suitable for use as ringtones, background music, what have hou. Piano rolls were the first digital music source -- great to see the data-files being ported over for modern hardware. He's got more than 2,000 rolls digitized!

[ Get your piano fix here ]

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