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Longest Piano Roll Ever Made On 2" Diameter Spool
By Piotr Barcz

Before I screwed up my perforators paper guide system for the
umpteenth time, I cut a 6-and-one-half-minute long tune and then
spooled it onto a normal set of 2-inch diameter flanges.

Has anyone gotten more than 5 minutes onto a standard flanged roll?
I mastered the MIDI file to over 50 punches per inch but notes seem
to repeat well enough; at least it sounded fine on my Conway (which
is really sluggish to repeat). Here's the video of said roll:

https://youtu.be/SlTgEIDvxk0
Attachment thumbnail I imagine that I could probably get 15 minutes onto an XP flanged Roll, or more if the tunes were slower, and probably close to half an hour on the massive Jumbo flanges Ampico used later on. Piotr Barcz Upstate New York

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