There are actually lots of old piano roll recordings from great artists like Rachmaninoff, Gershwin any many others around. Some people actually scanned them and converted them to MIDI:
http://www.pianola.co.nz/public/
These files can now be played on a Yamaha Disklavier, or the Steinway CEUS or now this new one.
Or they can be played with software-modeled pianos like PianoTeq or sampled-based software pianos. Really nice.
The first systems that could reproduce dynamics are from 1904: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=de&sl=de&tl=en&u=h...
There are actually lots of old piano roll recordings from great artists like Rachmaninoff, Gershwin any many others around. Some people actually scanned them and converted them to MIDI: http://www.pianola.co.nz/public/
These files can now be played on a Yamaha Disklavier, or the Steinway CEUS or now this new one.
Or they can be played with software-modeled pianos like PianoTeq or sampled-based software pianos. Really nice.