boustrophedon writes "The Buffalo News reports that QRS Music Technologies halted production of player piano rolls 108 years after the company was founded in Chicago. QRS continues to make digitized and computerized player-piano technology that runs on CDs. "We're still doing what we always did, which is to provide software for pianos that play themselves. It's just the technology that has changed. But I would be lying to say [the halting of production] doesn't sadden me," said Bob Berkman, the company's music director.
Piano rolls can last for decades, but not forever. Volunteers at the International Association of Mechanical Music Preservationists build piano roll scanners such as this one to optically scan rolls and convert them to MIDI files. The IAMMP archive and others contain thousands of scanned rolls." Link to Original Source
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