Show HN: Claude Plays the Piano from Braille

Posted by mccoyc on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:00PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle

For the longest time, I've wanted MIDI files created from scans of sheet music to listen to. I can't play the piano myself, but I've been around music since I was a child.

The existing software almost never sounded good, never expressive. This is an attempt to use an LLM to create music from BANA Music Braille Code, which has embedded rubato, tempo and dynamics.

Gottschalk: Grande Tarantelle, Op. 67 (arr. Nicolás Ruiz Espadero)

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Re:Show HN: Claude Plays the Piano from Braille by kdicjsidnsicnd on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:06PM (#50250138)

So it plays midi files… wow?

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Re:Show HN: Claude Plays the Piano from Braille by mccoyc on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:02PM (#50252395)

Not really. The code renders the MIDI files from North American ASCII Music Braille, which it turns out is quite machine-readable, but also a bit niche.

https://www.brailleauthority.org/music/music.html

This is what it starts from:

https://github.com/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle/blob/ma...

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