The 4th Global Piano Roll Meeting – Day 3

The 4th Global Piano Roll Meeting (GPRM) will take place at Stanford University, August 7–9, 2026. This is the leading international forum for music roll scholars, performers, archivists, and enthusiasts. The conference will take place over three days and include paper sessions, concerts, roll playing instruments, and social events. Topics include the historical study of piano and organ rolls, performers, audiences, and repertoires; pneumatic instruments; roll manufacturing; archival preservation and access; roll collections; performance studies; and performance practices. Day 3 Program of Events: 9:30am – Grace Chan Edwin Lemare’s Welte-Mignon and Aeolian player organ rolls: contextualising his influence on contemporary organ performance culture 10:00am – Joyce Tang Playing the Piano: Between Human and Machine in Harry Gill’s Caprice 10:30am – Break 11:00am – Peter Broadwell How to Share Playable Roll Scans with the Global Community: Lessons from the Stanford University Piano Roll Archive 11:30am – Freja Cole and Kevin Kishimoto Wiki-Project PiWikiProject Piano Rolls: Introducing a Collaborative Data Model for Piano Rolls 12:00pm – Lunch 1:30pm – Lourdes Rebollo The Pleyela Roll Collec:on of the Na:onal Library of Spain – BNE 2:00pm – Esther Burgos Bordonau Spanish and Latin American rolls in the Denis Condon collection 2:30pm – Break 3:00pm – Julian Dyer George Gale Foster – the man who gave us the Ampico and modernised the American piano industry 3:30pm – Scott Brown Piano Roll King — The Historical Importance of James P. Johnson’s Music Rolls 4:00pm – Break 4:30pm – Paul Johnson An interview with Richard Riley - recut roll and Disklavier producer 5:00pm – Peter Phillips Popular music on reproducing piano rolls 5:45pm – Concert 3: Disklavier Roll Concert 6:30pm – End of Conference Admission Information Delegates: $110 – Includes paper presentation, attendance at special sessions, three lunches, coffee/tea breaks, access to optional tours.General Admission (audito