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2024 AGM & Concert

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In 2024, the PPG’s Annual General Meeting was held at Downing Place United Reformed Church, CB2 3EL; a concert from James Eggleston’s Welte Vorsetzer followed. As well as a live stream, Julian Dyer kindly recorded selected works from the programme, which we are pleased to share below:

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Online Bulletin Library – Now Live!

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The PPG’s Bulletin library is now available to view online – right back to newsletter no. 1 in 1960! To access this resource simply login to the ‘Members’ Area’ with the details published in your most recent Bulletin. A searchable PDF index of all contents pages has been compiled by a dedicated group of volunteers […]

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Florence Price’s Fantasie Nègre No. 1 Duo-Art Roll

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Florence Price’s music was largely ignored during her lifetime but identified by Radio Three’s ‘Forgotten Female Composers’ initiative of 2017. Her works are now being increasingly performed and published, and their quality is attracting an ever-expanding audience. The North West Player Piano Association’s 50th Anniversary in 2022 was the impetus to produce a new Duo-Art […]

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A catalogue of Meloto and Regent Dance Rolls

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The Player Piano Group is pleased to announce that Julian Dyer’s complete catalogue of Meloto dance rolls has been published. This covers ‘popular’ piano rolls produced in Britain by the Aeolian Company – dance rolls of the 1920s & 30s, show and film tunes, light music and novelty piano of the 1930s – as well […]