Pianola Museum, Amsterdam 11

Pianola museum Amsterdam

General info
Quotes from the museum website [link] : "The Pianola Museum is located in the Jordaan, a 17th century quarter of Amsterdam.
The museum has a collection of automatic pianos and related objects. There are over 25.000 music rolls in the museum archive. Nearly all of them can be played on the different instruments in the museum.
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The pianola was introduced around the year 1900. At first it was an external player, playing on the keyboard of a normal upright or grand piano. Later the mechanism was built inside the piano, which had a dual function (also playable by hand). By means of a pneumatic mechanism the piano could be played automatically. A wide variety of music was available in the form of perforated paper music rolls.
The hand controls and foot-pedals enabled the player to inluence the tempo, and expression, thus making a musical rendering of a piece possible.
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The reproducing piano was the fully automatic form of the player piano. These instruments will play back a performance of a pianist which has been recorded on a music roll. The master rolls for the reproducing piano were made in the studio of the roll-factory with special equipment connected to the keyboard.
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The music rolls were made of thin paper, with the music notes in the form of holes in the paper. Instructions for the player were printed on the paper.
The repertoire was very varied. A great deal of the music composed for the piano was available on music rolls. Whatever could be played on a piano, could be punched on a music roll. Contemporary composers like Strawinsky, Hindemith and Antheil were even tempted to make special compositions which could only be performed by a player piano. These compositions are often too complex to be played by the ten fingers of one pianist or even the twenty fingers of two.



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Old ink drawing showing the use of the pianola

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