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

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