14 July 2022
This page contains MIDI files and other audio files in which I record what I play on my piano
("free style", no scores). If you are interested in Ragtime piano
music, check out Trachtman's
collection of MIDI files. Also, Terry Smythe's collection
of old
piano rolls
is wonderful; batch 15 contains many ragtime pieces. However, some
music players cannot handle midi files, so for this webpage I converted all midi files to mp3.
Of the modern ragtime piano players I like Stephanie Trick, particularly her rendition of the Maple Leaf Rag. Beautiful!
My setup for playing and recording digital
piano (Roland MP-60 digital piano, full
size, including Roland
earphones) is as follows:
Prior to 2010
Hardware
MIDIsport UNO 1-In/1-Out USB MIDI interface
Dell Latitude D-610 laptop
Software
Windows XP
Steinberg Cubase SE audio software version 1.0.7
Ad hoc
Actually, I started to simply record on my smartphone.
- Piece 06
(4:28, 19 Dec 1998)
- Piece 05
(4:34, 19 Dec 1998)
- Piece 04
(4:47, 19 Dec 1998)
- Glad to be home
(3:11, 28 Apr 2006)
- Hommage 11
(3:26, 28 Apr 2006)
- Phantasy 8
(4:20, 29 Apr 2006)
- Phantasy 11
(4:38, 29 Apr 2006)
- A new beginning (20 Oct 2010)
- A new beginning 2 (3:25, 20 Oct 2010)
- Hello Beautiful (2 April 2012; need to practice more)
- Exploring (6 April 2012)
- Of Old Times (6 April 2012)
- Sehnsucht (8 April 2012)
- Variation on a theme (8 April 2012)
- A good day (20 June 2015, smartphone)
- A happy outlook (28 Nov 2018, smartphone)