An automatic player piano has various sorts of individuality due to differences
in size, design margins applied to the component parts and a difference in electric
characteristics of system component parts so that key position signals contain
error components due to those sorts of individuality; plural feedback control loops
are created between the key sensors and key actuators, and the error components
are eliminated from the current key positions through the normalization; even if
an original performance is reenacted through the automatic player piano different
from that used in the recording, the feedback control loops cause the key actuators
to force the keys to move along reference trajectories determined on the basis
of the music data codes, whereby the manufacturer makes the key sensors shared
between the recording system and the automatic playing system.