A few weeks ago we were talking about the "mechanical" sound of
computer-generated piano music, or rather music scanned by a computer
from non-hand-played piano rolls.  I claimed that with decent software,
a patient user could add quite a lot of expression and articulation
phrasing.

Thirteen years ago I started building my own graphic composition
program, UltiMusE, and you can now hear some samples of what I can do
with it.

Even farther back when I was rebuilding and then enjoying my Duo-Art
(and finishing up a Ph.D. thesis on the side :-), I also started
composing piano rags.  Using my UltiMusE program, I have transcribed
several of these into standard MIDI files that can be downloaded from
my new Web home page:

  http://hometown.aol.com/knudsenmj/myhomepage/index.html

Although these are not hand played, I hope you'll find them more
expressive than the early non-hand piano rolls.  Feel free to email me
any comments.  I'd also be interested in having rolls cut from some of
my rags, via the .MID files.

Mike Knudsen