Piano roll production at QRS Music 

Its amazing to put a face to the name, Ive seen his name on so many rolls, never imagined I would find a video of him at his expertise. A true music maker

My grandmother worked at QRS forever. We used to go there frequently while living in Western NY. When she sent packages to us when we didn't live nearby they were stuffed with bunched up punched sheets. so very cool now that I think about the history.

The first digital music and it has lasted - that's an achievement. Thanks for this insite into piano rolls.

I'm sorry zapkorte. Whether or not QRS has actually halted production of rolls is debatable. They are moving all their equipment to new headquarters in Pennsylvania, and several company officers have stated they intend to continue making rolls. Also, your facts are wrong. QRS is not the "last" manufacturer of piano rolls, there are many others around today. QRS is simply the last surviving original roll company from the old days.

"...in these days, we use computers to make rolls..." man those are some dinosaurs of a computer!

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I just saw this factory on "How It's Made." Amazingly, that segment (shot, it would appear from a date stamp they show, on May 15, 2008) shows the exact same Apple IIe computer being used. I find that absolutely delightful.

Love the retro computer making retro piano rolls.

I visited QRS in the 90s and Rudy was still there but he was using a digital piano directly attached to a PC to master the rolls.

How fascinating that all that specialized machinery is still in use 100 years later. It will be a lost art if they ever go out of business. I wonder if they still use that Apple IIe.

Wow. What a great video. I simply cannot believe all of the labor that went into making a piano roll. They must have been expensive!

What a delight to see/hear. Thank for your great dedication.

As a little boy I was always fascinated with my Great Aunt's pianola and always wondered how it worked! Thank you for answering a question I've carried for 45 years.

I learned about them on how it's made. Search (How it's made player piano). After I watched the discovery channel show, I then searched for QRS and found this video from their website. This is awesome!

Fascinating! I've always wondered how rolls were mass-produced!

Amazing I have a pianola in Johannesburg and it is really wonderful that in this day and age pianola rolls are atoll available from QRS THANK YOU JONATHAN South africa

Love the Apple II... Amazing process. Excellent documentary.

Fascinating! Thanks for posting!

Wonderful Video, I was lucky enough to visit this factory a few years ago. It was alot of fun! I had a hard time leaving without a few hundred dollars of rolls though :-p

Somewhere in my mind I had forgotten memories of watching this host when I was a kid on TVO. This is the kind of stuff we used to watch when we had 4 channels, one of them in french.