Fully restored Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina plays "Lotosblumen Walzer" by E. Ohlsen. Restoration done by Fred Bernouw restorations in The Netherlands. Contact : licensing@viralhog.com
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@comms98035 жыл бұрын
TwoSetViolin needs to see this!
@micahh93512 жыл бұрын
This plays so beautifully, literally brought a tear to my eye. the man who tuned this should open his own business for tuning them, he did it near perfectly. a rare thing considering there are 4 seperate instruments here.
@WelteMax2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so very much for your very kind comments! It is very nice/good to read that the instrument still brings jou and tears in the eyes of its audiences. I would Also like to thank you for writing ever so joyous about the tuning of pith the piano and the 3 droefste Violins. I tuned the instrument myself just before every recording. Indeed it off VITAL importance- an out of tune Violin a is really not enjoyable at all.
@micahh93512 жыл бұрын
@@WelteMax you're welcome! And it is really quite something seeing these. Back in the day, they were freaking people out. Today, they still are.
@MrACMEtv11 ай бұрын
@@WelteMax truly remarkable. You have inspired me to get ours playing.
@doctorzaius40848 жыл бұрын
WOW this is really incredible... I just stumbled across the name "phonoliszt" in something I was reading and Googled it. Brought me here, totally blown away. What a fascinating machine... so intricate, and it really sounds incredible.
@WelteMax6 жыл бұрын
doctor zaius Thank you for all your very kind words. :). The “Phonliszt” was the piano only version, which had been developed by Hupfeld and released a few years earlier. Now this is also a Phonoliszt piano ( the piano playing system was named like that by the factory ) Then when they developed the top par with the violins - it became the “Phonoliszt-Violina” we all don’t know that well today. But I am trying mg my best to promote its existence as well as possible so we do not forget a Wonder like this! I mean - Violin playing robots form Toyota are alright, extremely advanced in technology - doesn’t even come close to what this machine that works with paper with holes and vacuum !:)
@BinaryXioms8 жыл бұрын
Wow, the other Phonoliszt-Violinas I've seen on youtube don't sound nearly as good as this one! Great job on this restoration!
@Ichigo_Keba6 жыл бұрын
it also has to do that its in tune
@WelteMax6 жыл бұрын
King Punchwood Tuned the violins an extra time with mean ear. ( and also play the violin since I was 6 years old ) so by now know how to tune a violin so it that it was perfect for the recordings. Thank you for noticing. :)
@WelteMax6 жыл бұрын
BinaryXioms Thank you :) I take that as a big compliment for the work my co-workers and I put into it, for a really long time, to make this one; one of the best playing examples. :)
@JamesPisano7 жыл бұрын
This is an engineering marvel!
@acousticedison7 жыл бұрын
Such a wonderful restoration. I worked for a summer at a musical museum in St. Louis MO in the 1960's and they never had theirs tuned well, what a difference it makes when its all working correctly. I also remember my Grandfather telling me about a machine that played a Violin with Piano at a tavern type location when he was young he used to enjoy it. It turned out it was still there and they had an auction but even though it was dirt cheap by todays standards I couldn't out bid a collector of the time.
@Ichigo_Keba6 жыл бұрын
thats too bad
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
Was that the Paul Eakins Melody Museum? He did have one at one time, among the many other musical goodies there. In fact, no early American "pioneer collector" of the generation first saving orchestrions etc. from the dump in the 1940s-1960s had heard one play correctly until several collectors heard one play at an MBSI (Musical Box Society) meeting in New Jersey in the early 1970s, which had been restored by Mr. Alan Lightcap, and with attention paid to every detail and nuance. Everybody was stunned because none of the American collectors had suspected these were capable of so much musicality. Suddenly, the value and reputation of these instruments rose dramatically from 'very little value except as a curiosity' to 'I MUST have one', and everyone else who had one (eventually) realized theirs wasn't playing properly. Today, most of the ones I've heard play somewhere in the ballpark of properly, because there are enough well-restored examples around to keep people mindful of how they SHOULD be sounding. Today, original Phonoliszt-Violinas are valued in the six figures.
@MrKlausbaudelaire7 жыл бұрын
whoever created this machine took the job of making a music box way too seriously xD
@OldTooly6 жыл бұрын
That's such a well done instrument of it's kind. I haven't seen anything like it. I have seen many other devices that play music but this one may be the finest yet. Considering the time period when it was built, it's a real jewel of imagination and design.
@MTSVW4 жыл бұрын
The vibrato feature works shockingly well and keeps the music from sounding mechanical. The “fingers” don’t appear to slide vertically to allow smearing of notes (instead it’s more like a fretted instrument) but I don’t really miss it. It looks like instead of sliding it plays each finger quickly in sequence and that replicates sliding and ends up not sounding staccato at all. Would love to better understand the mechanism that controls the bow speed. Would also like to know what the various controls on the roll are. Guessing vibrato x3, violin notes x3, violin tilt x3, bow speed, 88 keys, damper.
@WelteMax4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your nice response Mark! =) If you're really interested how this machine works and how its build and controlled - drop me an email, if you like, weltemax@gmail.com.
@kennyadvocat2 жыл бұрын
There is a little lever below the bridge that wobbles the pitch a little. Pretty cool!
@kishascape9 ай бұрын
@@kennyadvocatit just wobbles the whole violin.
@jparr17 Жыл бұрын
imagine where this might've been a hundred years ago, and how fascinated people must've been to see it play
@the_clockwork_jackass6897 Жыл бұрын
If I was ever at a party with this, there'd probably be a conversation like this; "Sir, you haven't taken part in the festivities all evening! Don't you wish to converse with the other people here?" Shoosh, I'm watching the violin! "But sir, it's onl-" Op, shhhh, violiiiiiin! "*Sigh* very well, sir, enjoy the violin." Thank you. 😂
@arburo19 жыл бұрын
Excellent! A very good restoration. Thank you.
@peanut95603 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, one the many things I want really bad but am too poor to buy or trust with my country’s postal system, also it is a very well crafted and restored machine, on the ground it takes up the space of a piano and is short enough to fit in most houses, it both complex, beautiful and well made yet it does not take up too much space and can fit in most homes. Great job
@RockStarOscarStern6343 жыл бұрын
The iconic thing about this Gizmo is that the Violins have Geared Tuners like a Guitar which makes them easier to tune up.
@rich80375 ай бұрын
Good spot. I've never understood why machine heads for violins (and violas and cellos) have never caught on. There are two or three designs on the market, to my knowledge.
@RockStarOscarStern6345 ай бұрын
@@rich8037 They really should catch on because they save the headstock from wearing out.
@RockStarOscarStern6345 ай бұрын
@@rich8037 I did however put them on my 5 String Cello & they actually put the strings at a sharper angle over the nut
@145FREE Жыл бұрын
It sings from the soul! 😊
@saigokun6 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful piece of engineering art.
@mrsjaak1003 жыл бұрын
Wat een mooi antiek instrument, en geweldig goed gerestaureerd, mijn complimenten. Prachtige wals ook van Ohlsen
@conniewong9395 жыл бұрын
@TwoSetViolin where are yall?? This is better than the modern sAcRiLeGiOuS robots playing a violin😂
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
DARN TOOTIN!!!
@harbinger.h4 жыл бұрын
TF I JUST CAME HERE FROM THAT VIDEO
@5yearsofLPTA4 жыл бұрын
YAMEDOJOS
@frankolen41374 жыл бұрын
What is the name of thatpiece
@5yearsofLPTA4 жыл бұрын
Yes. It’s A Thatpiece
@segelwaldi20104 жыл бұрын
Absolut beeindruckend wie die Drehzahl des Bogens an das Musikstück angepasst wird und wie die Violinen entsprechend mit dem richtigen Druck an den rotierenden Bogen gedrückt werden. Bitte wenn möglich weitere Songs von diesem Wunderwerk der Ingenieurskunst hochladen.
@searchthetruth21207 жыл бұрын
Many thanks for the restoration!!!
@cbrstar71453 ай бұрын
Close your eyes and it sounds like a person is actually playing. It's amazing how good it sounds
@spy48636 жыл бұрын
A very fine machine! Plays the music with such expression! Uncommon, in my humble opinion, for these types of machines!
@pickaname296 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure I've seen this before but it's always fascinating to watch. Built in 1910 right? 108 years ago this was built. This machine doesn't get the credit it deserves. I would love to see one in person sometime but I doubt there are many left.
@rachelh52115 жыл бұрын
They have one at the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar, CA. Reservations must be made, but the tours are free. I went there recently and they play a piece on their machine like this one, as part of the tour. They also demo many, many other automatic instruments, including an Automatic Banjo Nikelodeon and a pipe organ that takes up an entire wall and makes the room vibrate with its intensity. The lower floors, as well as another building across the street, have a huge collection of equally impressive antique and collectible vehicles, all of which are restored to look like new and are fully operational. Highly recommend anyone check it out if you are anywhere near enough to visit! (No, I'm not affiliated, and tours are free, as I mentioned.)
@thomashenden712 жыл бұрын
In perfect working condition - in opposition to so much modern technology that is built to be thrown away. Please post more videos with recordings of these instruments! 🙂🙂🙂
@lucrecias.petigna2047 жыл бұрын
This is the way I know how to play any "instrument" !
@johnferguson89937 жыл бұрын
Sensational! Sounds beautiful.
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
On April 1st, 1911, another patent was filed, US patent #1,025,397, entitled "Expression Device for Mechanically-Operated Violins", also, of course, filed by Gustav Karl Hennig. This patent is the only source I can find on the internet which completely explains how the Phonoliszt-Violina's violin expression system works and shows it clearly. A glance at Figure 1 shows not only the large pneumatic which moves the violin towards the bow, but also how that is restricted in its depth of travel by a cam on the end of a lever, which allows the depth of the violin into the bow to be changed. This cam-lever (shown as "d" in the drawings), is moved by a connecting rod, linked eventually to a pair of pneumatics, which are also ganged to simultaneously actuate a slide-valve connected to the wind-motor which turns the bow. Thus, as the expression pneumatics change the depth of contact the violin has with the bow, the speed of the bow is also changed, much like a real violinist will change bow speed and pressure to get dynamics. Of course, in the production instrument, I would assume these parts are adjustable, so that fine expression changes can be made, with bow speed and pressure independently adjustable: patents.google.com/patent/US1025397A/en?inventor=Gustav+Karl+Hennig
@WhalesBurgina7 жыл бұрын
This is great! +Wintergatan would love this.
@raptor22657 жыл бұрын
He's done a video on it!
@pickaname296 жыл бұрын
Yep he did a video about it. That's how I came across this video.
@drakecooley47767 жыл бұрын
I wish I could have something like this, this is amazing. I would have this thing play whenever guests were visiting.
@traubeminze8105 жыл бұрын
Same
@WimvanderBaan6 жыл бұрын
Schitterend gelukte restauratie! Petje af hoor! Groeten, Wim van der Baan
@darwiniandude5 ай бұрын
Wow. What an amazing instrument. Thanks for sharing :)
@peterzheng558 жыл бұрын
wow, such a wonderful creation!!!! I am dream to have one in home even we have iphone today.
@Ichigo_Keba6 жыл бұрын
well this thing was made 100+ years ago and they cost $850000
@henriquebeira7 жыл бұрын
Amazing!
@-K_J-10 ай бұрын
What a gorgeous machine ❤️ it plays so beautifully
@RiotDemon7 жыл бұрын
Amazing machine.
@GrantGillham2 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that hears a heart beet in the background
@WelteMax2 жыл бұрын
Very sharp of you. The “heart beat” you hear is actually the “heart” of the mechanical system. The “thumbs” you hear are the flap valves on the vacuum pump. 1) It was quite hard to re-master the equaliser in such a way you didn’t hear them. 2) Flap valves do actually make this noise when they are new and still a little stiff. :)
@southernman58394 жыл бұрын
Do they ever make anything like this today? So much craftsmanship!
@aaronb5060 Жыл бұрын
The Ramey Company builds a machine which plays piano, percussion, and Banjo!
@TheRetiredFurryBus7 ай бұрын
Beginning the paper jolts inward. that's my favorite part.
@boombox40372 жыл бұрын
Best self playing violens on the block this thing should perform again it’s made to
@Vis4v4g15 жыл бұрын
Beautiful machine. It makes me want to play rollercoaster tycoon
@superamazeing7 жыл бұрын
you messed up by not playing the soundtrack to westworld
@the_mysterious_gamer16577 жыл бұрын
Alex You have to consider he's the laying this type of music because this machine was invented in the 20's and this is going in a museum
@Ragnar85045 жыл бұрын
@Hawk Holloway I take that as a joke and laugh about it. I'd also find it funny to hear some modern music played on a miracle like this, just for curiosity's sake!
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
The final item to understand about the Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina is the roll note scale, which is given in the books "Treasures of Mechanical Music" and also in "The Golden Age of Automatic Musical Instruments". Amazingly, all piano and violin functions and expression are controlled by a roll with only 77 hole positions! (This is because the same paper width and hole spacing were re-used from Hupfeld's popular earlier "Phonoliszt" expression piano, which in turn was based on the 73-note "Phonola" home player piano, which I *think* was, in popularity, to Continental Europe what the 65-note player piano was to the UK and USA at that time. The piano part of the Phonoliszt-Violina is based on a Phonoliszt expression piano system and design). I believe the piano plays around 39 notes automatically, and also has a treble coupler and treble separator so that it can play either in octaves, or an octave higher, in the treble, giving the piano greater range than would be available from the scale. Of course, each violin only has one playing string, and three other strings which I believe are kept tuned, but are there for sympathetic resonance only. The violin fingers are cleverly multiplexed in the roll scale; in other words, one set of holes controls almost twice that number of fingers, since most holes have the ability to control two different fingers for a particular violin. The way they make that work is that there is a separate "note switch" multiplex hole which tells the finger holes in the tracker bar for a particular violin which of the two different fingers they're connected to. When the "note switch" hole is not open, the finger holes are connected to the valves for the first group of fingers for that violin. When the "note switch" hole is open, the finger holes are then connected to the valves for the second group of fingers for that violin. Since each violin only uses one finger at a time to fret the string (or none, for open string playing), this works. It's not like the piano which needs to be able to play chords with the note holes. Finally, the violin expression is actuated by a mere handful of holes which control different expression levels / bow speed and pressure, plus a couple to allow for "violin on strongly" (for accenting), etc. Some examples of the Phonoliszt-Violina have an automatic violin mute which is applied or taken off automatically under control by its own track in the roll, for the "con sourdino" sound. The tremolo is controlled by a single track which you'll see in the far right margin as a series of small holes which come up, and which you can immediately correlate with what you're hearing. The action in this is single-stroke, so it shakes the violin once for every hole that appears in the roll. Thus, the (genius) arrangers can get remarkably realistic effects by changing the hole spacing for the tremolo track and thus changing the speed (actually, here an exact ratio of the music, which is even MORE realistic) of the vibrato/tremolo to suit the dynamics, and mood and character of the piece. In my opinion, this is the single most crucial thing separating the Phonoliszt-Violina from the Violano-Virtuoso in expression abilities... the single-stroke totally controlled and variable tremolo/vibrato, versus the Violano's one-fixed-speed, on/off tremolo/vibrato. Just my opinion.
@electrolytics2 жыл бұрын
I bet the musicians back then were not too happy about these machines.
@erikhunter23817 жыл бұрын
Mechanization is gonna take our jobs!
@0rdoAbChao7 жыл бұрын
Erik Hunter These were made in the 40's you idiot
@bryanlocy36327 жыл бұрын
the first self playing violin machine was made in the early 1900's
@Ichigo_Keba7 жыл бұрын
dude these things were made in the early 1910
@ShamblerDK7 жыл бұрын
I guess no one got the sarcasm...
@janstephan46177 жыл бұрын
I guess with such a topic people are a bit on their toes......
@EtyMologic-vj8wy8 ай бұрын
volumin, revealin, revolvin,
@12TribesUnite7 ай бұрын
WOW THIS IS INCREDIBLE !!!!!
@cattythecat9161 Жыл бұрын
First i thought, whats that rotating thing on top... then i realized: its the Bow. cool Instrument 👍👍
@borto98602 жыл бұрын
I love this song!!! it would be great to make new videos about this nice tool!
@klaushermann67604 жыл бұрын
That sounds perfect!
@alanroche65592 жыл бұрын
WONDERFUL LOVED IT. THANKS
@tortysoft9 ай бұрын
Very nice indeed. I hope you can replace the missing fretwork too one day. Wonderful instrument.
@WelteMax9 ай бұрын
Thank you. I assure you - all the fretwork it there though - and you are actually looking to the inside of the left curved door. The curved “violin cover doors” are nothing more than a board of wood and fretwork. In the inside it is just piece of cloth to visually close up the fretwork. Even when closed, these doors let the violin sound thru very nicely. These could actually be used with doors open Or closed. :)
@tortysoft9 ай бұрын
Very glad to read this ! Splendid work !@@WelteMax
@opticschief7 жыл бұрын
Freaking amazing !
@aronricardovideoАй бұрын
Los inicios de la música totalmente digital. IMPRESIONANTE INGENIERÍA.
@nikcrosina Жыл бұрын
A marvelous instrument! I never heard or saw it before! Very well restored! Can still be new music be "programmed" into it?
@snoodlegirl1794 Жыл бұрын
It’s still amazing
@user-cj9cl9fg1y7 ай бұрын
Какой сложный инструмент! Какой гениальный мастер делал это!
@dvenuzka Жыл бұрын
Aren't piano keys supposed to move? Wonderful restoration!
@robertdehlinger6531 Жыл бұрын
I knew a lady in West Chicago,IL who had e of these in her home. She is now deceased, I hope it found a good gome?
@andrewbarrett1537 Жыл бұрын
If that was the late Julie Ann Johnson, it probably has. She also had a Hupfeld Helios I/32 orchestrion now restored and on display at the Volo Auto Museum in Volo, Illinois.
@dogsbody499 жыл бұрын
I have always preferred the Phonolist to the Violano Virtuoso a much more mellow sound.
@fardcannon43402 жыл бұрын
this is how they listened to music without youtube
@PhdHung5 жыл бұрын
awesome!!!!
@valdom685 жыл бұрын
It's so AMAZING!
@giuseppedagnano35895 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@drchuffart4 жыл бұрын
Anyone know the name of the song and where I can find a MIDI file for it?
@WelteMax4 жыл бұрын
ElectronicsCritic e-mail me at weltemax@gmail.com. Maybe I can get you the midi file from a roll scan.
@dark.3y3s443 жыл бұрын
@@WelteMax do you know if they sell records for this song im looking for it to gift to my fiance as its a peice from when we first started dating
@cetocoquinto4704 Жыл бұрын
Old but gold
@PRICONCO10 ай бұрын
This is indeed an engineering marvel 👍👍👌👌
@MrDynamind5 жыл бұрын
whew.. this is really cool
@choosers5177 Жыл бұрын
The violin moves and changes the playing dynamics. No slide legato tho.
@aarenmyatt45097 жыл бұрын
jesus now ive seen it all
@utah1337 жыл бұрын
And the thing is probably 100 years old. They were smarter back then than we tend to think.
@pickaname296 жыл бұрын
Built in 1910. So yea 108 years old
@whalesong9995 жыл бұрын
It even makes vibrato ... what a charming and marvelous machine.
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
@@whalesong999 And dynamics!
@marcopilati74649 ай бұрын
WTF! This wooden automaton plays violin 100 times better than me.
@rachelh52115 жыл бұрын
I saw and filmed one of these at the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar a couple months ago. Just amazing piece of engineering and craftsmanship! Today, I posted some of my videos on Instagram and someone asked me if the tour guide (who also does the restorations) provided any explanation for why the violins are upside down. I'm assuming it has to do with how the spinning bow needs to come in contact with the strings, as well as the position of the bow in relation to the motor. Can you provide more insight to this?
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
I have no doubt that the violins were placed upside-down so that a person of normal height (not a basketball player) can reach the screw-tuners on the violin headstock to tune the violins, whereas in this 9 foot tall cabinet, if they were oriented with the headstock pointing UP, one would need a ladder to tune the violins and it would be terribly inconvenient, not to mention hazardous. Also, the headstocks of the violins would be 'put in jail' by the vertical metal posts that connect the circular bow to the flywheel mounted in the top of the cabinet, so there would be no way to tune the violin with the bow spinning, unless of course everything was reversed and the bow flywheel was mounted UNDER the violins. But again, the height problem. So this arrangement provided the best solution: the flywheel hangs from the roof of the violin cabinet at the top, the bow hangs from posts on the flywheel (with, I think gravity plus the rigidity of the arrangement keeping it correct position), and then the violins are upside-down with the headstock at the bottom, so most people don't need even a stepladder to reach up and tune the violins.
@Klaasklinkert9 жыл бұрын
Very well done! Playing as if it was in the show room... Arrangement could be less condensed though..
@stevegladden13646 жыл бұрын
Why in the freaking worked did you mix in that other audio file??!!!! Seriously wrong! Or was there actually a rock band playing next door? I had to turn off the big speakers.
@WelteMax6 жыл бұрын
Steve G Dear Steve, of course I didn’t do that on purpose. So calm them tattas;) There was a flap valve on the pump that mail functioned. I tried to eddies it out. But sorry, this is the best I could do. I hope the Video Stil was a little enjoyable to you ;)
@stevegladden13646 жыл бұрын
The video was awesome I enjoyed it very much. I was pretty much joking. I figured there was something loud playing the next room over that you did not have control over. :)
@Tailss15 жыл бұрын
You mean that 70Hz woomp woomp?
@tomaszlerski7517 Жыл бұрын
Fenomenalna maszyna! Brzmienie skrzypiec jest idealne, jakby grał człowiek.
@createinside46134 жыл бұрын
excellent done
@albertohernz79886 жыл бұрын
"E. Ohlsen", I wonder about the name... never heard of Him/Her. Is there a partiture (music sheet) to this piece? I loved this melody! Plus the "apparatus" is impressively GENIOUS!
@googlestealmydatapls54105 жыл бұрын
Emil
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
@@googlestealmydatapls5410 Yes I think you're right; their name was Emil Ohlsen.
@olaasog86042 жыл бұрын
I found the sheet music on imslp! imslp.org/wiki/Lotosblumen%2C_Op.100_(Ohlsen%2C_Emil)
@andrewbarrett1537 Жыл бұрын
I’m glad someone finally posted it!
@YouHaveAPurposeStickAround Жыл бұрын
Mind is blown 🤯🤯🤯🤯
@watchmakerful3 жыл бұрын
Why do these violins have 4 strings if they use only one per violin?
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
Anyone wanting to understand more about how this instrument works would do well to check out US patent #1,079,046, invented by Gustav Karl Hennig, and filed May 27th, 1909. This patent covers much of the basic principle of the Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina (although not all things shown in it went into the production models, and in fact, some ideas shown in this patent appeared to have been suggestions / for experimentation only) which can be downloaded here: patents.google.com/patent/US1079046A/en?inventor=Gustav+Karl+Hennig
@KcDaugirdas7 жыл бұрын
How is the machine rendering vibrato on the violins? I would expect the tone to be more straight from the look of the machine?
@WelteMax7 жыл бұрын
Kc Daugirdas, film composer : It has a vibrato pneumatic on top ( to the actual bottom of you would take the violin right side up when playing by hand).
@KcDaugirdas7 жыл бұрын
Oh, cool, I see that now!
@WelteMax7 жыл бұрын
Kc Daugirdas, film composer Kc Daugirdas, film composer Awesome! You're welcome =) Also yet another important detail I forgot in the answer I just gave you. The vibrato pneumatic, is merely a small device that is mounted on top of each violin. This is one of the key secrets that makes the Phonoliszt-Violina musically extremely sound and therefore the Violano-Virtuoso was simply no match on 1910! On the world exhibition in Brussels. But of course, you do not only need the actual pneumatic, Well. I indeed think you also need an arranger that makes good proper musical use of this gimmick. The clever part is of it all that the pneumatic is controlled by the track on the far right hand side. It so always coded with single perforations(instead of longer slots). This makes it possible to have different vibrato speeds! :) They didn't call this mechanical musical marvel "The 8th Wonder of the World" Cheers, Max Lakeman WelteMax
@shoresean1237 Жыл бұрын
I picked up a music box miniature of a church organ and found it had spaces in upper compartments for violins and wondered if it was for music or storage. This settles that question.
@haroldfarthington7492 Жыл бұрын
i'd love to own a cd of this beautiful machine playing music
@robinroper Жыл бұрын
Fabulous!
@loracio2 жыл бұрын
Magistral !!!
@evgeniy_o_raznom2 жыл бұрын
1:09 largest flash memory
@BubbaSnipe4 ай бұрын
They could design such a technical marvel 100 years ago and yet today they cant design a head light for a car properly without half the car needed to be dismantled to change a single light bulb.
@RollaArtis6 жыл бұрын
These are fascinating machines - but can you tell me why the speed of the 'bow' changes? I would guess that it may be because certain notes need a particular speed and pressure of engagement - I note that chords are not often played on the violins.
@googlestealmydatapls54105 жыл бұрын
Your pressure idea is probably right.
@andrewbarrett1537 Жыл бұрын
Changing bow speed and pressure are how they get the violins to play louder and softer.
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
Max, do you know the names of any of the Hupfeld employees / musicians who arranged the music rolls for this instrument??? (They did this on the drawing board, of course; these were never hand played rolls). To me as a musician, that is the single greatest thing about this instrument: the roll arrangments. Had they been lackluster, or sloppily or poorly executed, Hupfeld would have been lucky to sell 100 of these as curiosities. Instead, due in large part to the marvelous, sensitive and personal musical arrangements, they were able to build a couple thousand of them.
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
I personally prefer, for musical listenability, especially for classical and salon music, the musical arrangements of Phonoliszt-Violina, arranged though they were, over the mostly hand-played (using keyboards) later Mills Violano-Virtuoso arrangements. It's a personal preference and of course people are free to like or dislike what they want. (The earliest Violano arrangements WERE arranged on the drawing board; I haven't heard any yet but they might be more realistic sounding!). I should mention that some good Chicago pop musicians like Walter Blaufuss and Fred Rose, did play the recording pianos in Mills' factory and thus their snappy playing is preserved in the Violano and Magnetic Expression Piano rolls; as long as you want to hear THEM (those musicians) and don't mind so much if the violin doesn't sound exactly like a live violinist, they're great fun.
@sherriwilliams66747 жыл бұрын
Nice! Is this in the Deutsches Museum in München? I saw a demonstration of one there last year.
@WelteMax7 жыл бұрын
Sherri Williams no, this was restored for a private collection by a colleague of mine.
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
I think there are around 50 originals of this instrument known to exist (out of something like, I think, 2,000 originally built?), plus several replicas.
@WelteMax7 жыл бұрын
NO there were about 10.000- 12.000 produced! ´=)
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
WHAT?!?!?! And only 50-60 still known to exist out of TEN THOUSAND produced?!?!? That's terrible!!!
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
How do you know how many were built?
@nicolamastrorilli44544 жыл бұрын
eccellente..un vero gioiello...
@chantallou810 Жыл бұрын
J'adore ! Merci
@GwinnettrailfanАй бұрын
Why aren’t the piano keys moving??
@samuelcolvin49947 ай бұрын
Do I vaguely remember this song from a buster Keaton film or am I just crazy?
@csound-castellano Жыл бұрын
¡Extraordinario!
@Raid3rFox5 жыл бұрын
this song is so underrated
@duckqueen41207 жыл бұрын
So I know the song is "Lotusblumen Waltz" by E. Ohlsen but I can't seem to find a recording of it anywhere, can someone shoot me a link by chance?
@briannamarie15807 жыл бұрын
Tyler Quinn Me too. I can't even find anything on this E. Olson person. I'm going crazy looking for it!!
@pickaname296 жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/qqfPZZp_gtCAfrM is this what you're looking for?
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
Here is the Scala Salon Orchestra playing this in the acoustic period of recording (i. e. probably before 1925 and the advent of electrical microphone recording. The artists recorded into a horn, where a diaphragm-type "reproducer" picked up the vibrations and etched the master record... the horn method introduced many 'wolf notes' into many recordings, which is why this record is so distorted in the midrange). The orchestra here are very likely playing from the same exact stock published sheet music arrangement that the Hupfeld arranger used to make their arrangement for the Phonoliszt-Violina (although of course they have rearranged it as a violin and piano duet): kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKfElYyZftubbJI
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
Here's another recording of it by Edith Loran's Orchestra, featuring a violin or viola solo at the beginning. This is also practically the same exact arrangement as probably used to arrange the Phonoliszt-Violina roll. Listen to the gorgeous feel and phrasing... so evocative of that other era, but for me, still so enjoyable today. I believe this is an electrical recording (made with a microphone), but here reproduced on an acoustic phonograph: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q6SrgZiEf7yZnq8
@andrewbarrett15374 жыл бұрын
@@briannamarie1580 One of my European street-organ friends, I think it might have been either Bjorn Isebaert or Jan Kees de Ruijter, sent me a thumbnail-sketch biography of Mr. Ohlsen, but I can't find it now! I'll ask. He was a real person. I can't remember if E. or F. is the correct first initial, but they had his first name and a short list of some other pieces.
@andrewbarrett15377 жыл бұрын
A logical question, from someone familiar with the regular hand-playing of violins, would be "why does the bow turn in one direction, and not reverse direction?" After all, human violinists using conventional bows will get certain sounds by bowing in different directions, or by rapidly reversing bow direction back and forth. Well. Mr. Hennig had this idea and tried it out around 1913. I don't know if it actually worked (it doesn't appear to have been put into production), but he filed a patent for it (I should add here that there were German original patents for all of these ideas; the American ones were so that people in other countries like the USA wouldn't rip off his idea. This was commonly done by many inventors). The patent is US #1,131,930 "Automatic Violin-Bow" and can be found here: patents.google.com/patent/US1131930A/en?inventor=Gustav+Karl+Hennig
@peanut95603 жыл бұрын
1:42 this is best part Also “Oh boo hoo let me play a sad song on the worlds largest violin”