2nd Global Piano Roll Meeting

Bern/Seewen

NEW! 25–28 September 2020

Program (Draft 03/2020)

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2nd Global Piano Roll Meeting

Friday, 25 September 2020

Konservatorium Bern, Grosser Saal, Kramgasse 36

18: 30 Registration

19:30 Opening Concert Rex Lawson

Saturday, 26 September 2020

Hochschule der Künste Bern, Grosser Konzertsaal, Papiermühlestr. 13d

Session 1: Overview of different topics

9:00 Sebastian Bausch (Bern), Marc Widuch (Munich), Kumaran Arul (Stanford) Opening Presentation

9:30 Rex Lawson (London) Building Bridges. The Player Piano in the 21st Century

10:00 Paul Johnson (El Dorado Hills, CA) Actively Managing Roll Collections

10:30 Morning tea

Session 2: Piano Roll Collections and Repertoires

10:45 Esther Burgos Bordonau (Madrid) The Hazen Hosseschrueders Piano Roll Collection. An Approach to its Study

11:00 Pietro Zappalà (Pavia) The Italian F.I.R.S.T. Company and its Catalogue. Analysis and Discoveries

11:15 Mats Krouthén (Trondheim) Some Music Rolls, their Users and Instruments in Norway c. 1900–1930. A Contribution to a Social History

11:30 Horacio E. Asborno (Viedma) Roll Manufacturers in Argentina

11:45 Karolina Skalska (Warsaw) Polish Piano Rolls in the Library of the Polish Museum of America

12:00 John McClelland (Lakewood) The Global Piano Roll Repository. A Relational Database

12:15 Discussion

13:00 Lunch break

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Session 3: Performance Practice and Interpretation Analysis

14:30 Neal Peres da Costa (Sydney) Piano Roll Recordings by Camille Saint-Saëns

14:55 Hermann Gottschewski (Tokyo) Piano Rolls and Visualization of Musical Performance

15:20 Discussion

15:30 Adriano Giardina (Fribourg) A Stylistic Pluralism. The Performance of Mozart’s Piano Music in the Early Twentieth Century

15:55 Manuel Bärtsch (Bern) Beethoven Performances on Piano Rolls

16:20 Discussion

16:30 Afternoon tea

Session 4: Performance Practice continued

16:45 Jordi Roquer Gonzalez (Barcelona) Special Rolls Made in Catalonia. The Case of the Unknown Recordings of Frederic Mompou’s Preludes I and II

17:10 Carolina Estrada Bascuñana (Bern) 19th-century Piano Playing in Spain. A Study of Performances Captured on Rolls

17:35 Artis Wodehouse (New York) Whither the soul of the artist? Comparing Paderewski’s Early Phonograph Disc Recordings with his Corresponding Piano Roll Renditions

18:00 Discussion

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Sunday, 27 September 2020

Hochschule der Künste Bern, Grosser Konzertsaal, Papiermühlestr. 13d

Session 5: Roll Digitization

9:00 Peter Phillips (Sydney) Roll Reading. An Essential Part of Roll Archiving

9:25 Craig Sapp/Zhengshan Shi (Stanford) Digitization and Emulation of Welte Rolls at Stanford

9:50 Discussion

10:00 Heike Fricke (Leipzig) Digitizing Piano Rolls. Views and Perspectives for Interpretation Research

10:25 Daniel Debrunner (Bern) Roll Digitization at Bern

10:50 Discussion

11:00 Morning tea

Session 6: Roll Copying and Archivation

11:15 Marcel Veel, Niels Berkers (Rotter) Give the Player Piano and the Reproducing Piano a Future?

11:40 Timothy A. Baxter (Atlanta) Copying Original Rolls in the 21st Century. Recreating the Original Roll’s Punch Matrix to Create an Accurate Master Roll File for Preservation and Perforation

12:05 Discussion

12:15 Wayne Stahnke (Reno, NV) Acceleration in Music Rolls

12:40 Denis Hall (London) Perforated Testimonials. Did They Really Play Like That?

13:05 Discussion

13:15 Lunch break

Session 7: Technical Understanding and Restoration

14:30 Hans Schmitz (Stuttgart) Technical Aspects on Rolls and Driving Motors as Basis for Interpretation of the Recordings

14:55 Marc Widuch (München), Daniel Heil (Brackenheim) Hugo Popper. A Central Figure to Reproducing Piano Roll Music and Technology

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15:20 Discussion

15:30 Julian Dyer (Wokingham) Broadwood and the Ampico in London

15:55 tba The Hupfeld DEA Reproducing Piano

16:20 Discussion

16:30 Afternoon tea

Session 8: Restoration continued, Playback issues

16:45 Joshua Rapier (Perris, CA) Reproducing Piano Rebuilding & Regulation. Considerations for Optimal Playback for Piano Rolls

17:10 Kai Köpp (Bern) Historically Informed Restoration. An Archeology of Sound Color

17:35 Discussion

17:45 Networking time

18:15 Participant’s concert and roll demonstration

Monday, 28 September 2020

Museum für Musikautomaten, Bollhübel 1, 4206 Seewen

08:30 Departure for Seewen (Meeting Point: Papiermühlestr. 13a)

9:45 Arrival at Seewen

Session 9: Museum Tour and Organ

10:00 Christoph Hänggi (Seewen) The Welte Philharmonie Organ in Seewen

10:25 Gerhard Dangel (Freiburg i. Br.) Welte Employees and Roll Editors

10:50 Discussion

11:00 Birgit Heise (Leipzig) About the estate of Ludwig Hupfeld AG

11:25 Jörg Holzmann (Leipzig) “Die (Noten-)Rolle der Frau im Aufnahmesalon Hupfeld”. Women Recording, Manufacturing and Advertising Piano Rolls from Leipzig

11:50 Discussion

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12:00 Lunch (Group A) – Museum Tour (Group B)

13:00 Lunch (Group B) – Museum Tour (Group A)

Session 10: Social History, Ethnic and Popular Rolls

14:00 Sergio Ospina Romero (Bogotá) Pianolas and Pianolists, or the Dawn of the Post-Human

14:25 Pol Cruells, Ramon Sunyer (Barcelona) Hommage à Chaplin, by Manuel Blancafort. A Piano Roll that Explains it All

14:50 Discussion

15:00 Inja Stanovic (Huddersfield) The Musical Museum’s Hidden Treasures. Duo-Art Audiographic Roll

15:25 Darius Kučinskas (Kaunas) Ethnic Piano Rolls (General Overview)

15:50 Discussion

Session 11: Duca Concert and Closing Discussion

16:00 Camilla Köhnken (Ghent) Lecture Recital with Duca Piano Presentation. Recordings of Liszt pupils

16:30 Roundtable, Closing Discussion

17:00 End of the 2nd Global Piano Roll Meeting