Piano roll production at QRS Music
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Uploaded by cc213t on Mar 18, 2007
A late-1980s tour of QRS Music's piano roll manufacturing facility in Buffalo, New York, originally aired on the TVOntario children's show "The Acme School of Stuff".
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Yes, we still use the Apple IIe for arranging and controlling the perforators.
3 years ago 4
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Yesterday, 3/1/09, announced the end of piano roll production at the QRS plant in Buffalo. Thats very sad!
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piano rolls rule :) now I know the origins of step sequencers
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QRS is dead. Asking them to arrange a roll is like asking someone to cause lightning and rain in a drought with no clouds. that and they haven;t and still aren't adding new titles to their library. If they still did the top 40 like they say they do, they might still have a chance at staying afloat. That, and making the old mechanical pianos. I personally prefer them over this MIDI nonesense.
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@jhananut yeah me too - would be great to see the two recording pianos they have
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Amazing
I have a pianola in Johannesburg and it is really wonderful that in this day and age pianola rolls are atoll available from QRS
THANK YOU
JONATHAN
South africa
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"Too bad this company didn't make cars." lol
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Someone should do a wiki bio on Rudy Martin. Most of my rolls have his name on them.
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I hope this stuff goes into the Smithsonian
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@robsonnbi I believe those "bandages" are more attune to the rubber grip finger pads librarian card catelog and IBM card operators used to use to get a better grip on single sheets of stacked paper. I use them myself when viewing boxes of vintage post cards at antique and collectible shows to flip cards quickly. They used to be common in old time stationiers, but I've only seen them available at antique shows now as their use is limited.
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I just wonder why the machine operator at 6:40 has bandage on the fingers of his right hand.
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Brilliant! I David Stringer has made some of the best television shows I've ever watched, thank you for posting!! I'm planning to visit the QRS factory and go on their tour myself later this summer. One question though: What is the song the segment is started with?
ggpr221292 3 years ago
The song is "(Won't You Come Home) Bill Bailey". Words and music by Hughie Cannon (1877-1912), published in 1902.
cc213t 3 years ago