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This has been done in various forms! One interesting one is shown in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hv2zh_Z0Io Sergei Rachmaninoff recorded a 78 album simultaneously with a piano roll of several pieces - thus capturing the 'keystrokes' and the audio of intonation of the master's hand. The piano roll was converted to an automatic reproducing piano (super high end player piano, a Bosendorfer 290SE) and massaged by an expert to sound almost exactly like the 78. Then it was re-recorded in modern fidelity, playing back from the 290SE. It is exciting to see and hear a 290SE (re)play in person, but a little weird in a concert setting with no pianist to watch.


That's amazing, thanks! I was even thinking that Rachmaninoff's recordings would be where I'd start.

It's like a ghost playing. Absolutely crazy to hear his touch but with modern fidelity.




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