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Pianocorder (2022)
Technical resources for owners of the Superscope/Marantz Pianocorder Reproducing System
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. Preservation and MIDI Translation of the Pianocorder Music Library(15 MB, Adobe PDF format) My master's thesis in computer science at The Ohio State University, completed in 1997, presenting a justification and process for preserving the entire Pianocorder tape library in modern digital formats.
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