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@SevenPlus65 22 күн бұрын

Love Jo Ann! I own each one of her QRS & Playrite rolls.

@SimplyAPiano 22 күн бұрын

@@SevenPlus65 nice how many is that?

@SevenPlus65 22 күн бұрын

@SimplyAPiano 11. This Chopsticks roll was originally a QRS roll. She did 10 with QRS and one original with Playrite which is Harper Valley PTA If you're further interested, go to my playlists. I have one specifically for Jo Ann Castle. I don't have all of them recorded yet, but those that I do, you can find them there.

@SimplyAPiano 19 күн бұрын

@SevenPlus65 nice I will check it out

@That_One_Player_Piano 24 күн бұрын

These are a few of my favorite things.

@lubelaumc 24 күн бұрын

"My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music.

@robertYTB78g 29 күн бұрын

Magic! Thanks for posting

@SimplyAPiano 29 күн бұрын

@@robertYTB78g So glad you liked it. When I started this channel I didnt know if anyone else would like it. Honestly I just wanted some music without words that I could listen to while studdying. Seeing others are intrested too is very rewarding!

@the-dirt-man Ай бұрын

HOW???? am i missing something? or do u just have a really chill ghost in ur house

@SimplyAPiano Ай бұрын

This is an old 'player piano' the paper roll in the middle has holes punched in it, and when the air escapes it hits the piano note. Yea in the 1800s they made pianos that played themselves and ran on air. Here is one of my videos where you can see the inside. kzbin.info/www/bejne/npDRZGmpjbFsfbcsi=TCrmb9xG-0T2foBj

@Theprobot1234 Ай бұрын

Didn’t know these types of pianos are still alive.

@SimplyAPiano Ай бұрын

@@Theprobot1234 Alive and kicking. I was shocked to learn they run off AIR! Hope you check out some of my other videos. Thanks for commenting.

@Theprobot1234 Ай бұрын

@ I heard these pianos are old. I didn’t think to many of them were made.

@SimplyAPiano Ай бұрын

@@Theprobot1234 they started being made in the early 1800s and stopped in the early 1990s, so there are tons of them out there. Infact you can find them almost free because they are so hard to move and usally need lots of work. This one is from 1988!

@Theprobot1234 Ай бұрын

@ oh. I thought there were made and stopped in the 1800s the more you know

@NRperfect_ Ай бұрын

That’s cool

@SimplyAPiano Ай бұрын

@NRperfect_ thanks. I have a few videos of it opened up so you can see inside. Hope you check it out.

@SimplyAPiano Ай бұрын

Hey thanks for commenting. I think its a 1988...at least sep 1988 is the date handwritten on the keyboard

@That_One_Player_Piano Ай бұрын

What year is your piano? Sounds great!

@lukesvintagetrains5495 Ай бұрын

Most people underestimate the power of these aeolians! You just gotta take care of them! (Not saying you underestimated it btw😅) both this one and mine are in almost perfect playing condition!

@That_One_Player_Piano Ай бұрын

@ Speaking of Aeolians…. I now have an Aeolian Orchestrelle Player Reed Organ! I showed it briefly in one of my streams. It was half built about 10 years ago, and I’m starting on it after the 1960s player I have, which can finally see light at the end of the tunnel. The pianos Aeolian made are pretty decent, the only thing I’m not too hot on is using sponge in the valves. Most of the time it falls apart and dries out. But like you said, if you take care of them they play well! As yours and the one in the video do.

@lukesvintagetrains5495 Ай бұрын

@ woah!!!! Lucky… those things are very neat. Do you have any rolls it can play?

@That_One_Player_Piano Ай бұрын

@lukesvintagetrains5495 It plays Aeolian Grand 58 note rolls. I only have 7 but I’m trying to find more.

@SimplyAPiano Ай бұрын

I just gave a few of thosw to the piano tuner!

@nickalasmontano1496 Ай бұрын

Love all the little flourishes in this. Props to the composer

@SimplyAPiano Ай бұрын

@@nickalasmontano1496 J. Lawrence Cook is estimated to have made around 20,000 recordings. He was hired by QRS in 1923, so this roll had to be made some time before then.

@davef.2329 3 ай бұрын

The piano's hungover....

@dmsheckler 4 ай бұрын

Regulator off??

@SimplyAPiano 4 ай бұрын

Im not sure what you mean by Regulator. If you are refering to the dampener that gives it a more tin like sound, then yes, that was off for this.

@dmsheckler 3 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano Sorry, tempo governor. Pneumatic regulation. Term was lost. Not trying to be an armchair critic but I had an ampico b that I loved dearly. I realize this is not that but I just notice it's choppy.

@SimplyAPiano 3 ай бұрын

@@dmsheckler yea I have wondered what has been making it choppy. I find it seems to run so much smoother when I do the foot pedels.

@gregmilliken9659 5 ай бұрын

Love it!! If Gershwin cut the roll for the song, we are listening to a man who died in 1938 actually playing the song!

@lukesvintagetrains5495 5 ай бұрын

Looks like a new-er ish qrs roll, and it definitely is a classical piece of some sort

@Ozdraws 6 ай бұрын

A classic! :)

@SimplyAPiano 6 ай бұрын

@@Ozdraws but can you listen to it without singing it?

@Ozdraws 6 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano I don't know... Only a feat for the strong.

@Heckerfamilyhomestead 8 ай бұрын

Awesome ❤

@petergroverd6626 8 ай бұрын

Is this a tired Pianola version of "Roll Em Pete"? It sounds like. Look up Neville Dickie's version of it on a a 1970's Boogie Woogie Record. and see the energy and the right speed with a drummer too. Very energetic and right.

@thatrecord5313 8 ай бұрын

Hmm... Thank you for demonstrating your gorgeous machine, but if I had to say, this piano roll in particular has no swing. Even if I speed it up.

@wharp75 8 ай бұрын

Tempo is too slow

@bobbeck5866 8 ай бұрын

I agree Pinetop was one of the Boogie Woogie greats

@roboftherock 8 ай бұрын

If that was the lyrics scrolling down on the right, then you could self accompany singing along with the machine. Peggy Lee is still my favourite performer, but this just moved into 2nd place.

@Skgwgaietto 8 ай бұрын

Have Paul and Ringo showed up at your house yet? 😅

@SimplyAPiano 8 ай бұрын

I wish

@That_One_Player_Piano 9 ай бұрын

Who rebulit your piano? Just curious.

@SimplyAPiano 9 ай бұрын

I dont know if it was rebuilt. We got it this way.

@kevinm6790 9 ай бұрын

Why so slow?

@SimplyAPiano 9 ай бұрын

The tempo said 50... Im completly unfamilure with the song though... should I do it faster?

@kevinm6790 9 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano Not sure where that tempo indication came from, but no concert pianist plays it that slowly.

@kevinm6790 9 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano kzbin.info/www/bejne/apjUmWaBhqqer9ksi=EUnrZlTUwGMRClRc

@kevinm6790 8 ай бұрын

I tried to link a good one for you to hear, but it seems it didn’t work. Check out the live performance by Rafael Blechaz (I may have misspelled his name).

@PiotrBarcz 9 ай бұрын

That's a fairly new roll by the looks of the paper, could be a Play-Rite or something like that.

@PiotrBarcz 9 ай бұрын

Got lucky with that piano! It plays well and sounds decent, a lot of these small 1960s players didn't!

@SimplyAPiano 9 ай бұрын

The hand writen date (If I remeber correctly) on it is 1983. I will have to take a photo next time I take it apart for cleaning. But I want to say September 1983...

@PiotrBarcz 9 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano Oh so it's a very late one! Nice!

@sablatnic8030 9 ай бұрын

It was written in 1960 by Bent Fabricius Bjerre as a signature melody for a TV show. It was named, as was the show, "Omkring et flygel". (Around a grand piano). Atco Records in USA didn't like the name, so it was renamed Alley Cat, and in 1963 happened to win a Grammy for best Rock'n Roll record.

@SimplyAPiano 9 ай бұрын

Thats awesome!

@jimwile9313 9 ай бұрын

Is your piano electric or crank? I am just fascinated with how they work!

@SimplyAPiano 9 ай бұрын

They run on vacume. Luckily for me this one has an electric vacume hooked to it. But before that there were pedals on the bottom that you pushed to build vacume pressure.

@jimwile9313 9 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano That is so cool! Thank you!

@SimplyAPiano 9 ай бұрын

@@jimwile9313 i have some other videos where I show the moving parts as it plays. Its amazing to think this is how they did it in the time before electricity. George Gershwin actually 'recorded' himself playing his songs on a player piano. In the 90s they released the recordings on CD. That lead to my intrest in player pianos, but I never had the chamce to get one until now. I actually have a Gershwin roll, played by him now I just need to get it recorded and uploaded.

@jimwile9313 9 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano Fantastic! I will look for the videos!

@paulomattozo6682 9 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@anthonygiglio9860 10 ай бұрын

Great Sounding Piano 😊

@Heckerfamilyhomestead 10 ай бұрын

Agreed

@SimplyAPiano 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

@PiotrBarcz 10 ай бұрын

1:10: Random dust ball goes cruising right through the frame xD

@PiotrBarcz 10 ай бұрын

I've tried to learn this tune, it's deceptively hard. Pauline Alpert made a spectacular roll of this one for Duo-Art, one of the most beautiful rolls out there.

@PiotrBarcz 10 ай бұрын

There's an old Aeolian Sting or Cabaret sitting at the Burlington airport in Vermont, it's really funny how this piano sounds almost exactly like that one except yours is in tune and in good playing condition unlike the one at the airport. These little Aeolian players have a very Baldwinesque tone.

@PiotrBarcz 10 ай бұрын

One of the finest arrangements of this tune I'd say, it's really imaginative though the ending I always thought was weirdly made. The second repeat of the first strain is just straight up awesome!

@roboftherock 10 ай бұрын

A great tune played with style, verve and much adornment.

@anthonygiglio9860 10 ай бұрын

Great song By Fabricus Or Bent Fabric😊

@SimplyAPiano 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and commenting. This was my first time hearing it. My piano tuner left me a bunch of new rolls I never heard before. As a result I should have a video coming out every week for the foreseable future.

@verkehrsteilnehmer-berlin 10 ай бұрын

Schwarzer Kater Stanislaus.

@SimplyAPiano 10 ай бұрын

@@verkehrsteilnehmer-berlin Was bedeutet das? Auf Englisch

@verkehrsteilnehmer-berlin 10 ай бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano This was the name of the German original version. Black Cat Stanislaus

@SimplyAPiano 10 ай бұрын

Das ist Toll. Pardon my beginer Deutsche

@PamClark-z6w Жыл бұрын

Just love the sound of these older uprights. They just have a "voice" of their own. Especially the players.

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Agreed. This one also has a (I dont know the actual term) dampener. When turned on it gives the piano a quietier and tinny sound. It really makes me thing 'old wild west saloon'. I will have to do some recordings of that and show everyone.

@ivanthevaluable2559 Жыл бұрын

Relatable; gives off "It's Just a Burning Memory" vibes...

@minimalizman Жыл бұрын

Not just mine...seems to slow down as the take-up spool gets heavier...???

@PiotrBarcz Жыл бұрын

That's strange that it would slow down and not speed up!

@minimalizman Жыл бұрын

@@PiotrBarcz indeed...

@terribleauthority Жыл бұрын

This is Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is more commonly known by the German nickname "Mondscheinsonate", Moonlight Sonata in English.

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Danke!

@anthonygiglio9860 Жыл бұрын

Sounds Like Beethoven 😊

@anthonygiglio9860 Жыл бұрын

Moonlight Sonata😊

@anthonygiglio9860 Жыл бұрын

I Think I Am Wrong😮

@terribleauthority Жыл бұрын

@@anthonygiglio9860 Nay, you are correct.

@gottalovepiano5682 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tune. 🎵🎶

@PiotrBarcz Жыл бұрын

I don't know why people keep on misspelling Medley as Melody, this is Scott Joplin Medley No. 2 arranged by J. Lawrence Cook

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Good to know. Thanks for the correction I wouldnt have known anything about it if it werent for the post it not already on it.

@PiotrBarcz Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano Glad I could help :)

@johntyjp Жыл бұрын

Nice but just need to up the tempo a little bit more!🧐

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

You are absolutly right. I am still fine tunning the process, but I will have to re-record this one

@utha2665 Жыл бұрын

This brings back some very fond memories of my Great Aunt that had a pianola and a huge collection of piano rolls stacked to the 10' ceiling. As a kid I'd sit on that pianola all day just playing all the rolls. I don't think I came close to playing them all. I never found out what happened to the pianola after she passed, I would have loved to inherit that.

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Thats a great story, and exactly the kind of happy memories I am hoping to envoke with this channel. I have a more modest collection of rolls, but plan on expanding out. My goal is to put up one or two rolls a week.

@oldionus Жыл бұрын

C minor

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Doh! Your right. I will change that now. Thank you so much for catching that.

@sqrt2gmr Жыл бұрын

This is like a 20th century form of MIDI; very cool

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Right? I have a bunch more I need to record and upload.... but I wasnt sure if zoom in on just the roll, or zoom out showing the piano keys is best. What do you think?

@sqrt2gmr Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano I'd prefer zoomed out, it can give a better perspective of what you're working with

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

@@sqrt2gmr next one I am doing is Beethovens 5th, zoomed out. Let me know what you think.

@johntyjp Жыл бұрын

@@SimplyAPiano automatic or legging it through pedalling 😲?!

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

@@johntyjp automatic. The peddles are still there, but might as well use the electric while we have it.

@darealbeesechurger Жыл бұрын

First😋

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@Heckerfamilyhomestead Жыл бұрын

Nice

@Heckerfamilyhomestead Жыл бұрын

Nice

@Heckerfamilyhomestead Жыл бұрын

Nice

@SimplyAPiano Жыл бұрын

Thanks

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