We are pleased to announce that the Global Piano Roll Meeting series will continue. Our next online Prelude covers roll recordings of music by Frédéric Chopin and Joachim Raff. Yannis Rammos, Severin Kolb and Aaron Chow will present their findings to all interested. Please register to receive the Zoom link (to be sent out about one week prior to the Prelude).

Music rolls and pneumatic instruments are a vital part of the history of recording and mechanical music. They provide a rich window into the technological, musical, cultural and economic history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Recent projects to preserve rolls by scanning and digitization have sparked wider interest in the field. This work has allowed for technical studies of rolls, which are an early digital record of music making. Archival documents are also yielding insights into the business and technology of roll manufacturing.

GRPM is an initiative supported by Stanford University, University of Sydney, Faszinationpianola and Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB.

Contacts:
Kumaran Arul
Sebastian Bausch
Marc Widuch