These are DOS-based executables that play inside a small window by default.
To enjoy the FULL-SCREEN effect, extract the files; in the Explorer, go to
the Properties of the Piano.exe file -> Screen tab -> Full Screen radiobutton.
Click OK and launch the Piano to enjoy full-screen mode.


PIANO-FORTE
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I developed Piano in 3 different languages and each one of them are unique:

	CA-Clipper 5	 -> Feature-packed
	QBasic 5	 -> Precise (without much interface)
	PowerBuilder 6.5 -> Quality-rich (incomplete)


CA-Clipper 5 (Piano.exe)
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This Piano-Forte is compiled to a stand-alone application.  It has a plenty of "tweaking"
options - as you would see - and it's a great pleasure to play on it.  However,
CA-Clipper supports Delay of 0.1 seconds (min) and hence, the Saved files may not have
the precision with which they were Captured.

Here are a few tips and hints:


	Press F1 (toggle) for a brief Help.
	Shift+F1 for a detailed Help (Esc to close Help).

	Press F2 for Music-Master.
	Music-Master is the interface to Piano-Forte.  Using this, you can tame the Piano to the hilt!

	Press F3 (toggle) to Hide/Show the Keyboard.

	Press F4 for Screen-Animations.

	I used the word "Click" in the Help file that actually means pressing/hitting the key.
	Piano does not support Mouse.

	The Piano.hlp file is NOT a Windows' Help-file!  It's just a text file!!

	Piano-Forte - basically - functions in 4 different modes:

		FREE-STYLE:  The Default mode

		CAPTURE	  : You can "capture" whatever you play until you press Esc;
			    You can Save the capture to a DBF-file with a .PNO extension!
			    Saved .pno files can be played back at anytime (F2).

		RECORD	  : Manual-recording of Notes to form a Tune; needs knowledge of Music!

		PLAY-BACK : Plays back a Saved .pno file; slips back to Free-Style after the job.


	This version currently creates "dbf" files to save captures and playback later. I am currently
	working on a version that can create/take text-files (!) as source files for capture/playback.
	The text-files would have the extention of PNO with the following structure:

	NOTE	  DURATION	OCTAVE		REPEAT		DELAY
	-------------------------------------------------------------
	A-G	  1-1040	-3 to +5	1-n		0.1-n


	So, anyone having a basic knowledge of music can create PNO files using a text-editor
	(or capture using the Capture mode from PianoForte) and then fine-tune the composition easily.
	Since the text-files are populated into multi-dimensional arrays on Load, playback would be
	as much precise and faster as possible.

	For more info, see Help by pressing Shift+F1.



QBasic 5 (Pno.exe)
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This version of Piano-Forte has maximum precision thanks to the highest/precise Delay that
QBasic supports.  In addition, this Piano also supports Tempo & Style thanks again to QBasic.
However, it's in text-mode without a visual interface.  Play-back can be Captured/Recorded
and Saved to a TEXT-file with PNO extension.  Needs QBasic to run the Saved files.  Further,
the file needs to be modified with proper Duration & Delay parameters for each Note.


PowerBuilder 6.5 (PianoForte.exe)
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High quality, intuitive and friendly user-interface.
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