Happy Home Waltz - from the 1887 Doherty Method book - 1861 R.S. Williams Melodeon

[@jimjordan5630]

Such sound and depth from such a small instrument! And beautiful played, as usual!

[@MarcoRoepers]

What a nice instrument, an so old! Always nice to play waltzes on a reed organ. Very wll played. Thank you!

[@secordabar2672]

Mooi gespeeld, nice played. Greetings from Holland, at the town Arnhem

[@clydesight]

I have a melodeon (unsigned) that looks like this one, but mine is in rosewood. The left pedal works a slim shade near the front of the instrument, just behind the keyboard. The bellows top plate has a heavy cast iron fitting for the right foot treadle. I think it is meant to help return the feeder top faster. I believe I found a similar model also in Gellernans's book "American Reed Organ", and based on teh woodcut, mine could have been made by Carhart & Needham. Interesting!

[@Oldman808]

Sir, thank you for posting so many excellent videos of reed organ music!

[@digitaltf]

Great job as usual, Rodney.

[@MichaelStBede]

Delightful !

[@JoshuaMorgan]

Such a lovely song on such a wonderful instrument!

[@lluisrafalessole-classical5068]

This is very wonderfoul music 🎹🎶

[@monikawojdak3037]

Hallo Rotney oh spieslst nen Walzer.Sueper schön.Sieht man Dich auch mal wieder.Monika de Hobby Organistin und Musikerin.Hat sich toll am gehört.🎵🎶🎼🎹🎵🎶🎼🎹🎼🎶🎵⛪💒⛪💒⛪💒⛪💒⛪💒👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

The Doherty Method Book that came w/ virtually every Doherty Instrument really would've allowed every owner to play some music on the instrument from day 1.

[@jonofarc443]

Question: Can a reed organ be played too much? How often should I be playing mine?

[@ChuckAndLucy]

There is no such thing as playing a reed organ too much unless it is damaging to the instrument or your social life... I have the second problem 😅