Recording of pianola rolls being mechanically played. "Artist" = original performer?

[sparkinson]

@mmirG

Does “Artist” = original performer of performance which was coded into the piano roll?

Definitely.

Of course, this does not preclude the person operating the equipment from getting engineering, etc. credits.

If the roll is seen as a recording, an opinion which I can agree on, this brings up the question whether it and the new recording are actually the same „recording“ in the MB sense. See also:

Restoration of gramophone records: new recording?

For some reason, I often find myself adding CD collections/compilations of old gramophone records. Two questions arose: What constitutes a new recording in MB lingo? Would the original gramophone record (were it entered in MB) and the modern CD share the recording, or would we enter two of them in some relation? Do we see the process of preparing a digital copy from an old record as creating a new recoring (as re-mixing would do), or similar to mastering, which keeps the old recording? One co…