Ampico Roll 215873 The Way You Look Tonight recut on a laser cutter

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Ampico Roll 215873 The Way You Look Tonight recut on a laser cutter

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Күн бұрын

This roll was made on a laser piano roll cutter that I built based on the design by Spencer Chase. The original Ampico roll was scanned by Terry Smythe in 2003 or earlier, converted to a MIDI file using Warren Trachtman's Roll SCan Converter software, and then converted to a GCODE file to operate the laser cutter using Spencer Chase's M2G program. These gentlemen all deserve a lot of credit for their work! After the end of the music there are a couple of clips of the laser cutter at work.
This is my first attempt at re-creating a roll from a scan file - there are some minor variations in the tempo in spots (which I'm sure were not in the original roll), but with a little more practice on my part using the software, this machine will make nearly-perfect copies of original rolls.
The Way You Look Tonight - music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Dorothy Fields. From the film "Swingtime." Winner of the Academy Award for best Original Song in 1936. The original Ampico roll also featured "A Fine Romance." This was an Ampico "B" roll, played by Adam Carroll and released in late 1936.

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@johnp965 Ай бұрын

amazing

@katieluecht 28 күн бұрын

Nice job, Dad!

@wurli1538 Ай бұрын

This is amazing. I love the whole lineage of an original roll ==> midi ==> G code ==> new roll. Although I understand all the reasons for converting an instrument to midi control but there isn't anything as amazing as an instrument playing from a paper roll! Good work all! Do you think this would work punching a cardboard "book" for a band organ? Certainly more material for the laser to remove.

@303wal Ай бұрын

The laser can cut through plywood, so I'm sure it would cut cardboard. The cutting speed would be quite a bit slower than for paper. The biggest challenge would be to get the cardboard to feed evenly through the machine, but since the cutting speed would be slower, it would probably work fine.

@spencoid1 Ай бұрын

Good to see this working and playing on such a fine piano. I recognize your setup but forget who it belongs to. You are the first to get this actually working. I do not have a pneumatic player and only made one full roll with bad X axis calibration so it did not play properly. It is really good to get confirmation that this method does work. I put a lot of effort into it and until now was sort of concerned since my first full roll was garbage. I have made several updates to the program and do not know if i got the latest to you. I also have made an unspooler for large rolls and it works very well. Uses an optical IR avoidance detector and is real simple. I can not tell if your spool is unspooled by a motor. Pulling from the Y axis motor is not enough for heavy spools of paper.

@PiotrBarcz Ай бұрын

Your project finally has come to fruition it seems!

@ukewarrior Ай бұрын

F A N T A S T I C. I'm on contact with Spencer and will be building one too. Is your exhaust up and out the same flue as your furnace?

@303wal Ай бұрын

Great. No, there used to be a furnace connected to it, but it's gone now.

@PiotrBarcz Ай бұрын

Oh my goodness Bill! THIS IS AMAZING!!! How much editing was necessary with your perforator to get the roll lined up correctly?

@That_One_Player_Piano 17 күн бұрын

I saw a comment you made on another video. You have one of these?(perforator) Could you tell me how much it cost to build?(if it's not too personal)

@MultiPetercool Ай бұрын

Can you provide an estimate of material costs and/or the vendor and model numbers for the components? If it’s not a huge outlay, I want to build one too!

@303wal Ай бұрын

I just totaled up my receipts: $280 for the laser engraver, $288 for the other parts and tools needed (not including the woodworking tools and miscellaneous supplies that I had already). I will put together a detailed list of parts and some plans with dimensions and make that available.

@MultiPetercool Ай бұрын

@@303wal You, sir, are a Prince! It makes me wonder how much additional throughput could be added by adding a second laser operating in parallel and staggering the data appropriately.

@That_One_Player_Piano Ай бұрын

Are there directions on how to put this together? Also, how much overall does it cost for all the parts? Beautiful piano btw.

@OttoVonChesterfield234 Ай бұрын

How did you build the lasercutter?

@303wal Ай бұрын

It is based on the design by Spencer Chase which uses a laser engraver available online, and the paper feed mechanism devised by Chase.

@OttoVonChesterfield234 Ай бұрын

@@303wal Do you think you could make a tutorial of sorts?

@303wal 29 күн бұрын

I put together a PDF with some pictures and commentary on how I built this roll cutter. Spencer has it posted on his Spencer's Erolls site. I will make a drawing with the dimensions of my machine (not that they're that critical - Spencer's cutters are quite a bit different).