On a player piano, tempo is perhaps the wrong word to use! A tempo of 70 means that 7 FEET of paper pass the tracker bar each minute. Throw in that the holes punched can be recorded at different densities, and you are left with no real indication of tempo! My way is to set the speed to what sounds right, and match the beat with a metronome. BTW, on my piano, 'tempo' is next to the lever marked 'loud' . That's wrong too, it controls sustain.
The roll itself says 73 tempo. Yes, you set it to sound right. And correct, Loud presses the echo pedal. The rolls have small holes on the outside left that trigger the sustain.
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The tempo actually changes quite a bit throughout the song. There is no way that's 73 BPM. It's a neat piano, though!
+Miniman0404 I found out, the tempo stays the exact same throughout the whole song. Time it. It is 73 BPM its just there are shorter and longer notes.
On a player piano, tempo is perhaps the wrong word to use! A tempo of 70 means that 7 FEET of paper pass the tracker bar each minute. Throw in that the holes punched can be recorded at different densities, and you are left with no real indication of tempo! My way is to set the speed to what sounds right, and match the beat with a metronome. BTW, on my piano, 'tempo' is next to the lever marked 'loud' . That's wrong too, it controls sustain.
The roll itself says 73 tempo. Yes, you set it to sound right. And correct, Loud presses the echo pedal. The rolls have small holes on the outside left that trigger the sustain.