Boing Boing Staging

Smooth Criminal on a Victorian barrel organ

Smooth Criminal M.Jackson à l'orgue de barbarie

Here’s Smooth Criminal, arranged and performed by Patrick Mathis. Something about this suggests to me that there is a machine that turns midi into those rolls; I couldn’t find it, but Virtual Roll is a physical gadget that pretends to be a paper roll in player pianos, kind of like the fake cassette tapes that let you hook MP3 players up to a car stereo.

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