Australian engineer Peter Phillips digitized thousands of these artifacts created by companies like Ampico and Duo-Art. For 10 points each:
[10m] What recording medium has a standard 11 and 1/4-inch format in which punched holes in spooled paper control pneumatic keys? This medium shares its two-word name with the grid used to display pitch and rhythm in DAWs (“dahs”).
ANSWER: piano rolls [or player piano rolls; or pianola rolls; or reproducing piano rolls; or music rolls; reject “player pianos”]
[10h] This company’s Mignon reproducing piano was the first instrument that could record phrasing, dynamics, and articulation. In the early 1900s, Steinway attached this German company’s recording mechanism to many of their pianos.
ANSWER: M. Welte & Sons [accept Welte-Mignon reproducing piano; accept Steinway Welte]
[10e] This Russian composer recorded several of his opus 11 preludes and his first Poème on a Welte-Mignon piano. This composer’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire features the “mystic chord.”
ANSWER: Alexander Scriabin [or Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin]
<S, Classical Music and Opera>