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Pianocorder (2022)

created: May 30, 2025, 4:06 a.m. | updated: June 2, 2025, 1:34 p.m.

The Pianocorder Reproducing System is a solenoid-driven player piano retrofit developed by Superscope in the late 1970s (also available factory-installed in the Marantz Reproducing Piano). Instead, the Pianocorder splits the keyboard into two halves, much like the pneumatic reproducing systems of the 1920's, using 5-bit treble and bass intensity values to control the expression. Superscope and QRS jointly created a fairly extensive library of material for the Pianocorder system, available on over 350 40-minute cassette tapes. A large portion of these recordings were made by converting reproducing piano rolls to Pianocorder format. Aliens Project Pianocorder PageDas Synxss-Studio in Germany proudly owns one of the few Pianocorder systems in EuropeRelated LinksThe Mechanical Music DigestAn excellent, moderated mailing list covering a wide variety of topics of interest to mechanical music enthusiasts.

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