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Global Piano Roll Meetings

GPRM

We are an international forum of individuals and institutions supporting community and inquiry among professionals, enthusiasts, and students working with paper piano rolls and pneumatic roll-playing instruments.

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GPRM conferences

GPRM - Music in focus

Every two years, we meet for three days at different locations around the world for the Global Piano Roll Meeting and discuss progress in projects and topics relating to piano rolls. In addition to many technical, historical and interpretation-related aspects, the main focus is on music and networking!

This video shows musical impressions of the last conference in Sydney. All presentations were recorded on video and most of them are available on request.

Scientific Projects

HKB Magic Piano

This is a wonderful series of interviews, that Sebastian Bausch did with many very interesting key persons...
Hupfeld website

Dr. Birgit Heise has set-up a very good website with details on Hupfeld and many other Leipzig companies ...
Stanford SUPRA

The Archive of Recorded Sound (ARS) holds a major collection of piano rolls and documents player pianos...
Pianolatron

A web-based virtual player piano developed by the Stanford University will allow everybody to play rolls...
Syncopation and Volume

At the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn this project delivered very interesting results...
MPM Encoding music

Music Performance Markup (MPM) is used by Niels Pfeffer (University of Tübingen) to encode musical secrets...

Participants' statements

  • “Preludes are great, many thanks for organising them!”
  • “Again congratulations on such a great meeting and bringing us all together!”
  • “… please keep up the momentum!”
  • “It is a phantastic chance to meet each other!”
  • “…I just wanted to thank you for your efforts in helping to bring the conference together. I found it to be a wonderful success, and…
  • “… I would also like to thank you for the many articles and historical resources you have made available on your website, these have been a…
  • “You really know how to set up a show. You are a force that has brought so many people together. Like similar events, it took…
  • “…congratulations with a fantastic website! Now we all are together and really global! Very good site and very good idea!”

Rolls and more made available again

Roll Digitisation

The most important step to preserve the music treasures on original rolls of the golden era is to digitize them...
Roll Emulation

Emulating rolls allows to reproduce the roll data with all its functions to other systems, like a midi instrument...
New Rolls

Music on rolls is what it all had been about with Pianolas. New copies of rolls are essential to have them play...
Player Instruments

Original player instruments have become scarce. Key is the expertise how to maintain and esp. how to play a Pianola...

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Inspired by Jean Jaurès

...Preserving achievements of previous generations...

"...does not mean just archiving the ashes, but keeping the fires burning.“