Greetings Rollscanners, I don't think there is much value in using reproducing piano test rolls to evaluate a solenoid player. There are several assumptions in...
Dear group, I have been dealing with a large lot of Cecilian rolls (about 70 or so) which I have helped a friend sell to another friend up in Washington state....
Hi all! Some years ago I scanned about 100 piano rolls from my collection with a flatbed scanner and a software program of mine under Windows 98SE. I sent the...
Hyde Park, NY - Larry Doe seeks to purchase one Yamaha MDF-3 MIDI Data Filer in working condition. Power supply, manual and cables would be a plus but not...
Hello to everyone, Does anyone know of, or has anyone built a real time scanner or roll reader. If you have I would like to communicate with you. My goal is to...
Hi Jerry; Having worked a lot with CIS array's I do not think that technology would be practical for real time. On the other side I have seen pneumatic...
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Hi to all I'm responding to Jerry Vitale's recent posting regarding a real-time roll reader. During the 1970s I constructed this very thing. It used a ...
Has anyone considered fitting a tracker bar with individual photo diodes? Perhaps it would need optical fibers to couple the light to the diodes. It would of...
Ken, Many years ago a close friend of mine, Rip Mohl (whose name I mention in the event some of you may know him) tried to build a business on converting old...
On 21 Jun 2008 at 7:15, "Jerry Vitale" bldc5510@... ... At the 2006 AMICA Convention in Chicago, Larry Emmons brought with him for operational display...
Hello Terry. Larry Emmons is still out there, as I've been corresponding with him on another list about band organ roll frames. The email is the same,...
Why is inadequate contrast not a problem with the CIS scanners that everyone else is using? It depends on the type of light source. Has anyone experimented...
Ken, I neglected to mention that my friend was working on his project in the early 1970's. His circuitry was all or almost all discrete. Anything in the path...
But do the present CIS-based scanners do all this processing, or do they have another way of dealing with the contrast? For what it's worth, I found these...
Greetings Rollscanners, Just finished scanning this article. It looks like a very thorough reference for anyone wanting to archive audio data although little...
Spencer, One "standard" method is to use Simple file verification (SFV). A web search should turn up several options, including some free or open source...
I expected to see some recommendations in that article regarding the best medium for archiving. What is the life expectancy of PC-burned CDs or DVDs? The...
... Getting a good copy is important. File comparing and verifying will help ensure it starts out matching the original. Keeping it readable is also important,...
Greetings Rollscanners, I would like to report on my experience with a simple file verification program that I have been using now for a few days. It is called...
I have been looking into this issue since Spencer's original post. Regarding media: according to most manufacturer's data CD-R outlasts DVD-R by a ratio of...
Here is how NASA does it: http://preview.tinyurl.com/5fd8v2 "And so historic records from NASA's golden era have possibly been lost forever amidst an...
Greetings Rollscanners, At lot more to think about concerning durability of media and especially about the error correcting capabilities. I don't think I ever...
Greetings Rollscanners, I have recently took an interest in adding lyrics to MIDI files to create karaoke files. I tried using Cakewalk a while ago and it is...
Recently, my 25+ year old roll repair rig finally collapsed on me. Time to build a new one. As I did so, I photographed and documented the process. It is not...
Got an interesting music from the author of a free Midi Player I had not heard about before. Drag and drop any of our midi files into its desktop icon, then...
Hi all, I am a new member and a newby to roll scanning. Is there an archive of the previous posts (or digests) for this group that I can download? I really...
