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@unclelouie3828 7 сағат бұрын
GREAT!!!
@unclelouie3828 7 сағат бұрын
Somehow it's difficult to get this on KZbin. Guess that's why there are so few comments. This piano is so great. We love it.
@jorgearmandosaavedracastro1745 11 күн бұрын
Pianola de rollos
@ragzobrian-fn6ir 19 күн бұрын
Wow 2 superior makes: Knabe piano and ampico pneumatic/vacuum system , now just: oh what year is the piano please?????!!!!
@Yalie06405 19 күн бұрын
@@ragzobrian-fn6ir The piano is from 1926, manufactured in Baltimore. The Ampico B system was from 1932. I had it installed in place of the original Ampico A system.
@ragzobrian-fn6ir 14 күн бұрын
@@Yalie06405 thank you fascinating saying the least!!! the ingenious vacuum player system is complicated enough my opinion then to understand them enough to have a 2nd installed as a replacement WOW......thats also inspiring engineering!!!: IF THE original wore out, no having it restored?? The original player from 192......ugh six??? Gee whats left of my Radle player a 1919 piano has whats left of the originall player system.......
@watauga6510 22 күн бұрын
Wait. 1940? So the recording is a series of holes in paper. So either the hole is open or closed? Isn’t that basically “digital”?
@TheAmpico 23 күн бұрын
Wonderful. I'd love to hear this on the Knabe(s). This is probably my very favorite Ampico roll.
@merimar3 24 күн бұрын
Lovely playing as usual! Question - do you have a few sheet music books you reference for these 1930s medleys?
@TheAmpico 24 күн бұрын
Have you done any more refining to this cute little gem of a piano? It sounds to me like the Ampico is having an easier time with soft passages. I hear much more in the way of dynamics than I did in the other videos. It sounds very nice.😊
@Yalie06405 24 күн бұрын
@TheAmpico Actually, yes! I dialed back the first intensity and also voiced the upper treble. It was terribly bright. The hammers are original and should be replaced but better for now.
@TheAmpico 23 күн бұрын
@@Yalie06405 Great work! She sounds great!
@zigouigouix 24 күн бұрын
Incredible Chickering, with this well known roll. I didn't know it was released so late, as Porgy and Bess is a 1935 musical production. It also reminds me Cab Calloway's fabulous "it ain't necessarily so"
@zigouigouix 24 күн бұрын
Hello Nicholas, was just thinking how incredible it is to be able to see and listen to your many instruments through YT, and the way you know and master them, technically and musically. Nice rainy sunday morning, here in France, perfect for an Ampico session ....
@Yalie06405 24 күн бұрын
@zigouigouix I'm glad you're enjoying them. I try to keep them all in good operating condition. I grew up learning to play the piano from studying piano rolls so as a pianist, collector and rebuilder, I try to keep them in decent shape!
@tryrobb8594 24 күн бұрын
Very nice piano! In perfect tune. Yayyy. Thanks for sharing. More please!
@PiotrBarcz 25 күн бұрын
Man I want a chickering so badly!!!!
@Kevin_drinks_Lead 25 күн бұрын
Beautifully
@laurencedahl8624 25 күн бұрын
The piano sounds amazing!
@lawriefoster5587 25 күн бұрын
My shipping address is. .... This is better than a Steinway imo.
@WOTUCISWOTUGET1 27 күн бұрын
Dreadful...
@lukesvintagetrains5495 Ай бұрын
This is literally my dream, an gorgeous old ampico in my living room in December with snow outside
@PiotrBarcz Ай бұрын
Neat hearing this roll after Sasaki Katsumasa posted it playing through PlaySK on the Yamaha C5 disklavier he has access to :D
@petermintunmusic Ай бұрын
This is one of the very first AMPICO rolls I ever heard. It was May, 1967. Changed my life!
@zigouigouix Ай бұрын
Well received : thanks !
@markreinhardt5336 Ай бұрын
Nick, what I enjoy with your postings is that your Ampico is regulated to sound like natural playing on your piano and room size. Too, too often the Ampico plays for too loud to sound natural. Very nice!
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
@markreinhardt5336 Thanks Mark! I try to keep all of my pianos not only tuned but as regulated as I can. If you're going to have a reproducing piano, of course the piano needs to be functioning just as well. Glad you're enjoying my videos 🙂
@markreinhardt5336 Ай бұрын
Simply lovely Nick!
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
@markreinhardt5336 Thanks Mark!
@TheAmpico Ай бұрын
Fabulous!
@PiotrBarcz Ай бұрын
1:23: This swings so hard
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
@PiotrBarcz Isn't that wonderful?? It's one of my favorite parts of the whole song. Pretty swingy for this time period on Ampico nonetheless!
@PiotrBarcz Ай бұрын
@@Yalie06405 Indeed! Was there ever a piano roll made of We'll Meet Again? I just hooked on that tune xD
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
@PiotrBarcz Unfortunately not according to the Ampico book. I suspect it may have been too late of a tune or not popular enough for the late run of rolls.
@PiotrBarcz Ай бұрын
@@Yalie06405 Yeah, a shame, the 1953 recording Vera Lynn made would make such a good roll.
@PiotrBarcz Ай бұрын
Sounds great as always!
@zigouigouix Ай бұрын
Long live the Ampico Boys ! By the way, did Adam Carroll record any more rolls after the Aeolian American merger ?
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
I have a suspicion that like many others, he was relatively quickly phased out after the merger and bottom started falling out of the market. From what I've read and heard, Frank Milne was preferred due to his popularity and of course abilities to create and work magic into both the styling of the Ampico and Duo Art systems and familiarity with it all. Of course to make it seem like they still had a wide artist recording base, that's why he assumed so many pseudonyms.
@zigouigouix Ай бұрын
Piano show room ? Piano workshop ? Do you go professional ? I definitely missed something
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
I'm currently converting my garage in a finished showroom and workshop for all the pianos I have as it'd be nice to have them all almost in the same space and would be nice to have a dedicated space to work on them. I rebuild pianos for myself. I've been doing it for over 20 years. Slowly getting into player work now too.
@Xpian Ай бұрын
Cheers for this! (And congratulations on over 700 subscribers!)
@kirksjunque Ай бұрын
Yet another delightful Ampico selection---thanks for sharing this with us.
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Kirk. Let's get together soon!
@zigouigouix Ай бұрын
Didn't we say 26 ? Every new instrument is like a birthday present for you, and your many talents
@zigouigouix Ай бұрын
Oooohhhhh, 1913 !.... So this is a german T100 scale for red rolls, and not a Welte Licensee ?
@merimar3 Ай бұрын
I have been turning into a Knabe fan lately. This sounds superb! Great playing too. Hope to get there myself one day as well.
@Yalie06405 Ай бұрын
@@merimar3 Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Knabes really are wonderful instruments. They are generally very well built and have a much more natural sound to them compared to most other higher quality instruments.
@markreinhardt5336 2 ай бұрын
Love the case!
@lawriefoster5587 2 ай бұрын
What a glorious instrument!! Thank you for this treat..
@lionelatwill 2 ай бұрын
Wonderful tune beautifully played, thanks foe posting
@unclelouie3828 2 ай бұрын
Love the piano. I wanna be sitting in that living room listening & watching the piano. Rather than lying here on the beach in 'sunny Florida'. Really!!
@Xpian 2 ай бұрын
@ 1:35 I should have loved to have had your rendition to play for my parents! Amongst their 78s they had two versions: a Rex by ‘Jay Wilbur & his Band’ with vocals by ‘Sam Browne’, and a Columbia with a vocal duet by ‘Anne Lenner & Eric Whitley’ with music by none other than ‘Carroll Gibbons & His Band’ from the Savoy! Dad was RAF and Mum was WAAF. If they managed leave at the same time, Mum made what rations they'd been able to put by into a picnic lunch, and Dad brought his HMV 102, as pianos aren’t known for portability. (One always perceives one's parents as older, but when the War started in '39, they were only late-teens). They never spoke of having ‘a song’, per se, (not one in particular), but if they had it surely would have been: ‘They Can’t Black Out The Moon’! They'd have loved this... you play it so well! Cheers!
@ilonajeanpassino608 3 ай бұрын
Fantastic sound and playing ... love it.
@prairiedoggy1 3 ай бұрын
First heard this in the Grey Gardens movie. Great rendition!
@johnball3487 3 ай бұрын
Beautiful. I notice the Case 65 model Steam Traction Engine settings atop that lovely cabinet too. I also have one if them@ Thank you for sharing with us @
@Yalie06405 3 ай бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Sohmer built some very high quality instruments. I got that Case Steam tractor from our local Steam Pageant in Canandaigua, NY many years ago. Probably at least 20 years ago now.
@joybreeden366 3 ай бұрын
Bravo
@TheAmpico 3 ай бұрын
What a lovely tune. What ocean liner is hanging above the piano?
@johnball3487 3 ай бұрын
Beautiful!
@johnball3487 3 ай бұрын
Beautiful! Piano looks great too, sounds good, and love the played selection!! Thank You for sharing!
@marcelnoya 3 ай бұрын
Wauw... dit is gewoon geweldig!
@Xpian 3 ай бұрын
Pretty much anything by Sousa seems fitting for American Independence Day... Happy Fourth!
@PiotrBarcz 3 ай бұрын
Damn imagine how loud this roll would be on a Mason & Hamlin BB! It already is ridiculously loud on the little Knabe!
@Yalie06405 3 ай бұрын
I would imagine not too much difference. This Knabe is 6ft 4in long and the RBB is 6ft 11.5in. I've played both instruments and I can testify there is not too much difference in sound or bass!
@PiotrBarcz 3 ай бұрын
@@Yalie06405 Really? Huh, I thought the BB's were 7 foot, maybe the RBB is a bit longer because of player system but I don't think that's the case when it's in a drawer. Probably depends on the piano too, your Knabes have phenomenal bass tone.
@Yalie06405 3 ай бұрын
@PiotrBarcz You're right. With reproducing pianos that have drawers, generally there is not adding on to the length of the piano unless it's the Duo Art system, unless you have one of those later Duo Art systems that were in the Ampico B drawers. I think what helps with Knabes is that they have such wide tails compared to most pianos which adds more soundboard volume and generally makes them sound larger than their actual size.
@PiotrBarcz 3 ай бұрын
@@Yalie06405 Yeah, the boat tails are awesome for bass tone!
@PiotrBarcz 3 ай бұрын
FFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@johntyjp 3 ай бұрын
Must take some practice to match up your fingers with the perforations in the roll Nicholas?!!😄🧐
@kirksjunque 3 ай бұрын
Lovely piano, lovely roll, wonderful selection of late 30s tunes!
@Yalie06405 3 ай бұрын
Thanks Kirk! I'm glad you liked it!