[linux-audio-user] Extracting MIDI from old recordings

[David Baron]

On Monday 07 March 2005 22:45, linux-audio-user-request at music.columbia.edu 
wrote:
> Thought this was interesting:
> http://www.toolshed.com/blog/News/zenph.html,v

The "Vorsetzer" is not new.  This was a mechanical/pneumatic device for 
recording a piano performance and then playing it back on a real piano.

Yamaha bought this patent and brought it to a modern, electronic version. 
Consumers can buy these specially outfitted Yamaha pianos (not cheap)--I 
think that "disklavier" is their brand name for this--and purchase the 
recordings as well. Newer ones combine CD players, XG synths, MIDI in and 
out, and all kinds of goodies.