[LAU] midi bonanza: scanned player-piano roll archives!

[Niels Mayer]

They sure knew how to play the piano back in '29 ....

http://nielsmayer.com/npm/ItsAllWornOutBlues+21db-anamodynex.ogg

it appears that each time-period overused the sounds it could get out
of it's music instruments. The 90's it's filtery synths and LFO trix,
the 00's -- autotune... well back in the days when the pianoroll was
the sequencer and the means of (re)production,  they could do all
these crazy trilling chords that no human normally would play, but the
pianoroll would. so that's why you have that whole (for lack of a
better word to describe it) "southern riverboat" (usa) sound...

The aforementioned "Blues" isn't one of them... another I really liked
and a nice development on the trilly pianoroll sound is the
roaring-hollywood-sounding-flamenco piano in the various versions of
"Valencia" ( http://members.shaw.ca/paud122/batch23.htm )
it must have been a big hit in the clubs at the time:
smythe-midi/Valencia (1926) 29064S.mid
smythe-midi/Valencia 207521A.mid
smythe-midi/Valencia - 3507S.mid
smythe-midi/Valencia 43868S.mid
smythe-midi/Valencia - 999929S.mid
smythe-midi/Valencia-S.mid

-- Niels
http://nielsmayer.com