Music for Pianos

Jazz Era Piano Rolls Page

This page is a tribute to Terry Smythe and his dedicated work on the conversion of Piano Paper Rolls into Midi File Format.  In the early part of the 20th century many legendary masters from the golden age of piano playing recorded their compositions and repertoire utilising the piano roll.  As paper piano rolls cannot be preserved indefinitely they will, in time, certainly self-destruct and die. It is vital therefore that this important period of musical history, before recordings were made on more permanent materials, is preserved for posterity.

Terry has made his own collection of approx.  3500 rolls available on his website together with technical details of the scanning process and included are excellent photographic illustrations of the equipment used for the process. http://members.shaw.ca/smythe/rebirth.htm

He is prepared to make his roll scanner available to owners of collections of piano rolls wishing to scan their collections.

Below are some examples of Terry's work which I have selected and edited. The original files and the remainder of the collection of approx.  3500 MIDI files can be downloaded from his REBIRTH web site.

Each Tune on every page is available as part of a Collection. Browse all MIDI Collections.                            Browse all MP3 Collections
Composition	Composer	Music for Pianos MIDI Collection	Music for Pianos MP3	Music for Pianos MP3	Sheet Music	All time Greatest albums at Amazon click image for CD's, MP3's and DVD's
A cottage for Sale (2'04)	Willard Robison and Larry Conley	MIDI Collection
A Day in Venice (2'36)	Ethelbert Nevin	MIDI Collection
Aba Daba Honeymoon (2'21)	Arthur Fields and Walter Donavon	MIDI Collection
Ain't that a Great and Glorious Feeling (2'54)	Ager/Yellen	MIDI Collection
Alabamy Bound (4'46)	Ray Henderson	MIDI Collection
Alone (3'16)	Brown and Freed	MIDI Collection
Always (5'08)	Irving Berlin	MIDI Collection
Am I Blue (3'03)	Akst,Clarke,Dubin and Warren	MIDI Collection
American Patrol (4'51)	F.W.Meachan	MIDI Collection
Are You Lonesome Tonight (3'36)	Turk/Handman	MIDI Collection
Baby Face (3'07)	Davis Akst	MIDI Collection
Bacharach Medley (6'32)	Bacharach /Liberace	MIDI Collection
Bad Bad Leroy Brown (3'18)	Jim Croce	MIDI Collection
Bam Bam Bamy Shore (3'26)	Dixon and Henderson	MIDI Collection
Barcelona (3'39)	Khan and Evans	MIDI Collection
Because (2'09)	Teschemacher, D'Harde, Salve d'Esposito	MIDI Collection
Beer Barrel Polka (Roll out the Barrel) (2'46)	Brown and Timm	MIDI Collection
Bill Bailey won't you please come home (2'17)	Hughie Cannon	MIDI Collection
Blue Moon (3'58)	Rodgers and Hart	MIDI Collection
Blue Skies (3'50)	Irving Berlin	MIDI Collection
Jazz Era Piano Rolls Zip MIDI Collection with full file composition titles and Composers Instant download (8 hours 20 mins)			MIDI Collection			Piano Rolls; Audio 408 results
Jazz Era Piano Rolls mp3 Collection No 1 (1 hour 9 mins)

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