27th Batch of Player Piano Roll Scans

This complete batch of 375 titles are all contained within ZIP files accessible off this page. It's contents are as follows:

Ampico performances - 92

Duo-Art performances - 107
Welte performances - 14
88 Note tunes - 119
65 note tunes - 43

Total this batch - 375

This complete batch of roll scans may be downloaded by clicking on individual zip files as follows:

To view Ampico titles, click on content , and to download them, click on: Ampico Performances (1.1 megs)

To view Duo-Art titles, click on content , and to download them, click on: Duo-Art Performances (1.3 megs)

To view Welte titles, click on content , and to download them, click on: Welte Performances (125 kbytes)

To view 88 note titles, click on content , and to download them, click on: 88 note tunes (1.3 megs)

To view 65 note titles, click on content , and to download them, click on: 65 note tunes (350 kbytes)

Note: these 65 note tunes emerged from pre-1912 piano rolls, without automatic sustain controls. As such, some are musically uninspiring, but most have a charming melody line within. Do listen to all throughout.

Special Thanks to:

• Dave Sexton for the loan of 88 note rolls from his personal collection.
• Dave Kerr for sharing archive files from out of his roll archiving efforts.
• Jim Gardner or loaning Ampico rolls from within his personal collection
• Jud Murphy for the loan of 65 note rolls from his personal collection.
• Julian Dyer for sharing archive files from out of his roll archiving efforts of British Duo-Art rolls.
• Larry Fletcher for contributing 88 note rolls for archiving.
• Michael Swanson for sharing archive files from out of his roll archiving efforts of his Ampico rolls.

As before, the "piano" files will work on all solenoid pianos such as Disklavier, Pianodisc, Pianomation and Pianocorder. For those inclined to tinker with the midi files, a very good free utility is "MidiMod", available from Spencer Chase's web site: