Very good free piano MIDI files for download:
- Terry Smythe's site
Terry offers his large collection of reproducing and 88-note piano rolls converted to MIDI format. These files play marvelously on the Pianocorder!
- Tom Lear's Piano Roll Karaoke page
Assorted piano rolls with karaoke lyrics added by Tom Lear. These are designed to play well using the Superscan Display Console emulation built into the Pianocorder Control Plug-in for WINAMP.
- Robert Perry's Piano Roll Scans
Assorted piano roll scans in MIDI format
- International Piano e-Competition
Each year, the world's top pianists compete in Minneapolis / St. Paul, Minnesota, performing on Yamaha Disklavier Pro pianos which record their performances for posterity. Yamaha makes these available on the competition web site in MIDI format, and you can download and enjoy them on your Pianocorder.
- Doug McKenzie's Site
Excellent hand-played jazz MIDI files
- Sue Keller's Jazz and Ragtime
Jazz and ragtime MIDI files
- The Primeline MIDI Library
An extensive, well-organized collection of ragtime pieces in MIDI format (a few classical pieces are available too).
- John Farrell's site
John creates terrific piano roll arrangements, many meticulously transcribed from vintage recordings of legendary jazz pianists.
- George Bogatko's original piano roll arrangements
George is another exceptionally talented piano roll arranger. Some of his files also include secondary MIDI instruments such as xylophone parts etc.
- Warren Trachtman's site (ragtime MIDI files)
- Benjamin Intartaglia's site (piano rolls converted to MIDI format)
- John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library
- Mike Meddings' ragtime MIDI files
- Fantastic Recital On MIDI
Hand-played classical piano performances by Japanese pianist and composer Katsuhiro Oguri
- The Piano Bar
Hand-played jazz standards
- Classical MIDI Piano Page
A German site featuring classical and Christmas piano MIDI files.
- Classical MIDI Connection
Classical piano MIDI files
- Rene's Piano Bar
Sequenced MIDI files of mostly Spanish songs
- "Perfessor" Bill Edwards' Ragtime Archive
A large collection of sequenced ragtime MIDI files
- Classical Archives
Classical piano MIDI filesQuality piano MIDI files available for purchase:
- Spencer Chase's E-Rolls
Spencer offers several CDROMs of reproducing piano rolls converted to MIDI format using his highly accurate, proprietary conversion system (free samples available online)
- Peter Phillips' MIDI
Peter offers several CDROMs of reproducing piano rolls converted to MIDI format (free samples available online)
- Wayne Stahnke's Live Performance disks
Mr. Stahnke offers some terrific recordings made using the highly-accurate Boesendorfer SE reproducing system he personally designed.Additional sources of piano MIDI music, both commercial and non-commercial:
- QRS Music, Inc.
QRS sells many of their classic piano roll arrangements on diskette in MIDI format. If you purchase this material, make sure you buy diskettes and NOT CDs (the CDs are specially-encoded audio CDs, not data CDs containing MIDI files).
- PianoSoftware.com
This site sells material for QRS, Yamaha and PianoDisc systems, all of which are compatible with the WINAMP Pianocorder plug-in (due to copy protection on Yamaha disks, you will need to use a third party tool to copy the files to your hard drive prior to playback with WINAMP). If you purchase material from this site, make sure you buy diskettes and NOT CDs.
If you know of a good source of music that is not on this list, please send me email and I'll add it!
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