Mozart's K330 Player Piano Sonata

Mozart's Piano Sonata performed on a player piano. Midi supplied by ajisabaki.com. Thank you, Aji! It sounds much better live, of course. Sorry for the background noises (I have a bird chirping, chiming clock, etc.)

These player pianos are capable of playing single instrument midi's that can be downloaded off the Net. I simply use some freeware to assign the instrument as a piano, convert the midi to type 0 and save it to a floppy. The player does the rest.

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Music

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• mozart
• piano
• sonata

[handleydan]

Are there also pianos like this that play on a certain CD? What software does it take for it?

[mozart14]

@handleydan It plays floppies, CDs and the internal hard drive. The software comes pre-installed in the unit.

[Temptezt]

There are better autoplayers for piano, that can reproduce dynamics way better. But a midi file doesn't include dynamics anyway right, can your piano players do dynamics too if you have record function?

[mozart14]

The record function does handle dynamics.

[sppe769]

how do you convert a standard midi 1 format to "0"?

[mozart14]

There are a number of ways. There's a free tiny binary called "miditype" that will do only the conversion and nothing else. Anvil, which is also free, is a great, robust tool and will export to midi 0.

[jmmitchell147]

Well done piano!!!

[BartBassist]

An automated thing can just about get away with Mozart- now get it to play some Ravel sympathetically. Technology is very impressive, but nothing can replace the human touch.

[timothy1573]

I have a classic one, the one you put the scroll in and you know, and i have a bunch of scrolls. They are awesome.

[zyxomma1]

With a little extra time spent 'humanizing' the inputs, this could perfectly mimic a human performance. Manually adjusting not velocities, and adding a few milliseconds of drift so that the notes don't stay mechanically on time.

What you are hearing, and complaining about, is a poorly programmed performance. At the end of the day, someone still has to program the machine - if they don't understand the art, it won't sound right no matter how accurate it is.

[protte225]

@BartBassist I don't agree that it just about gets away with Mozart; no good pianist would ever play Mozart like that. Also, some of the apporgiatures or grace notes are not handled the way they are played today. The fact that there is no dynamic variation and nuance is a really big fault.

[aquilarco]

but...i hear some wrong notes...how it's possible?

[paopaomanalansan]

too mechanical !

[OmegaWolf747]

How do you program music into the piano? Do you hook it up to a computer, or does the box at the bottom have some sort of media card slot?