[ Ref. 221220 MMD, Recording and Producing a New Pianola Roll ]

Let me explain a bit more about the video that was linked here a few
days ago without naming the music. It shows the making of a brand-new
Duo-Art roll of Florence Price's Fantasie Negre No 1, played by Allyson
Devenish FRCM [Fellow, Royal College of Music].

Allyson specialises in black female composers, and very kindly agreed
to make a recording for the UK's North West Player Piano Association
to mark its 50th anniversary. This is the first roll made of Florence
Price's work; she's a 'forgotten' composer who is rapidly and deservedly
becoming better-known. This was performed on a Disklavier and translated
directly to roll format, notably using software written by Nigel Epsom
to create Duo-Art coding from MIDI velocities.

This video shows the process from performance to roll production:
https://youtu.be/lC11PD53clE  The published Duo-Art roll can be heard
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cmkspsBxW0 

The roll can be purchased via my website -- it'll be listed after
Christmas.

Julian Dyer,
Wokingham, UK
http://pianorolls.co.uk/ 

 [ Julian wrote to me, "If you compare the original performance on the
 [ first video link with the final Duo-Art roll in the second you can
 [ hear how well Nigel Epsom's software recreates the dynamics. I edited
 [ the music (with a bit of finish from Adam Ramet), deliberately
 [ leaving almost all the note times untouched except obvious fluffs.
 [ The MIDI-to-roll conversion is a great deal less 'lossy' in terms
 [ of timing preservation than either Duo-Art or Ampico production
 [ technology, and there's a great deal of naturalism in the roll."
 [ -- Robbie