Show HN: Claude Plays the Piano from Braille

2 points · 1 visible top comment · 2026-10-26 20:00:14 UTC

For the longest time, I've wanted MIDI files created from scans of sheet music to listen to. I can't play the piano myself, but I've been around music since I was a child.

The existing software almost never sounded good, never expressive. This is an attempt to use an LLM to create music from BANA Music Braille Code, which has embedded rubato, tempo and dynamics.

Gottschalk: Grande Tarantelle, Op. 67 (arr. Nicolás Ruiz Espadero)

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kdicjsidnsicnd · 2026-10-26 20:06:28 UTC

So it plays midi files… wow?

mccoyc · 2026-10-26 23:02:24 UTC

Not really. The code renders the MIDI files from North American ASCII Music Braille, which it turns out is quite machine-readable, but also a bit niche.

https://www.brailleauthority.org/music/music.html

This is what it starts from:

https://github.com/chris-mccoy/gottschalk-tarantelle/blob/ma...