Pianola playing The Entertainer

[@BigWheel.]

It's crazy they were able to harness the dark arts and power a self playing piano with the souls of piano players who died in bar fights. Really amazing history here.

[@SunburntPrints]

Summon their spirits with the pedals!

[@pimuce]

@@SunburntPrints crasy Feet 🦶 Lol 😅

[@jamesgleeson6538]

Pianolas are one of my favourite instruments. Helps one appreciate the music of different genres. Great family activity.

[@The_Real_Slim_Shadow94]

Top spooky instruments designed to haunt: 1. Pipe organ 2. Harpsichord 3. This pianola 4. That grand piano from Super Mario 64

[@flowertrue]

You forgot the theramin

[@louisehogg8472]

Organolas combine the first and third of those.

[@The_Real_Slim_Shadow94]

@@flowertrue that’s not spooky, that’s just sci-fiey

[@mientone]

This is the grandfather of Synthesia XD

[@katiehowe3764]

I was coming to the comment section to comment that lol

[@Ih8kone]

The newer ones are electrically powered with no human intervention.

[@paulinotou]

@@Ih8kone New is kinda a relative word too. My grandmother had one in their house when I was a kid (late 90s) and all you had to do was set up the scroll and press play.

[@craftcrewtv8094]

LOL

[@dumdum7786]

Or just midi in general

[@vitosos]

Sir, you have a beautiful pair of socks!

[@samuelpyke5933]

Vitosos :D

[@user-FE40536]

:D Yeah, they are... Groovy.

[@tonywhitburn]

Now I know: ghosts in old mansions were never good piano players. They just were good at pedaling.

[@Avetho]

And ghosts never get back problems, nor do they run out of stamina. Eternal piano playing.

[@СемейныйархивДругаля]

Абсолютно Вы правы. Соседи не знали, что у нас такой инструмент. И я после школы "играл". Благо, перфолент было много. Часами. А вечерами, когда соседи встречали моих родителей, они хвалили меня: "Боже, как играет Ваш сын!". Мама с иронией отвечала: "Да, играет!"А я ходил с видом "великого пианиста". Хотя сам к тому времени мог сыграть гамму в две октавы, не более. You are absolutely right. The neighbors didn't know we had such a tool. And I "played" after school. Fortunately, there were a lot of punched tapes. For hours. And in the evenings, when the neighbors met my parents, they praised me: "God, how your son plays!" Mom replied ironically: "Yes, she's playing!"And I walked around looking like a "great pianist." Although by that time he could play a scale of two octaves, no more.

[@guarassu]

Thanks a lot! I'd like to show it to my daughter, 12 years old now, and I founded here! In a couple of years this kind of information may desapear, if guys like you dont preserve the history! This is very important! And the Pianola is a amazing machine either!

[@TadeodeWiesent7]

¡¡¡Bravísimo!!! ¡Hermoso! ¡Me fascina todo el proceso, antes de comenzar a tocar, y después de tocar, también! 👍👍👍👍👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌻🌻🌻🌷🌷🌷💐💐💐

[@tonyyoung8041]

I can remember my My grandad used to own one of these years ago i like these since Excellent 👍🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹

[@SunburntPrints]

My grandparents took me when they went to buy this. It has moved around the family a bit and now my sister has it!

[@tonyyoung8041]

I found it annoying because when they moved villages demolished houses to smaller house and down sized it went i got annoy its important to save these old pieces of equipment id love one today🤔🤔🙄

[@leomessi2717]

That pianola sure brings back memories.

[@VYX3I]

Same

[@thormarum995]

If I had a piano like that it would do nothing else than playing The Entertainer. 24/7

[@christinenathan7173]

I remember my grandad had one of these. Long time ago. Don't know what ever happened to it. One of those childhood memories.

[@kimchristofi2963]

A very beautiful thing! thankyou - Love from the UK

[@nelsonmenda8593]

We had a pianola very similar in hour house in Porto Alegre, Brazil and I loved, as a kid, to play my favourite musics. Till the day the system of air stopped to function and it was impossible to fix it. Now, that I'm living in Portland, OR and write a weekly blog, I just wrote about that intrument I missed so much. Nelson Menda

[@agentofficerthomasa.porter107]

Use to play that song when headlining in night clubs. The days when there were the great clubs. Great memories of no more. Those were the days.

[@fatalpotatoe4741]

an old version of midi

[@FilipinoFurry]

Midi 1900

[@mariposx_monarcx]

lol

[@comradebraixen]

​@@FilipinoFurryoh, hello there popular old self

[@murrayreed2881]

Remember as a little boy going to my Uncle Joe and Aunty Idas house and playing the pianola,a real adventure! Select the scroll,tighten it up(still remember the squeak ) load it in open the scroll door and then the pedals came out and start pumping.Absoulutley loved it, nothing like every one having a sing along.Every kid should experience this.

[@nachomane7989]

Beautiful...! Precioso...! Gracias...! Thanks...!

[@georgina8958]

I have this same roll! Love playing it :) Thankyou.

[@tiamarie6719]

Sometimes, I think that old technology like this is really cool and I also like this song.

[@CBuxton-EX.HKt.D]

I have one and many Rolls ,but I wish I had this one as my mum who's now 76 used to own a pub called the Entertainer and her self was a well known Entertainer for 60 years. amazing instrument.

[@andreeabendis0532]

I am here because of Gabriel Garcia Marquez book 😁 wanted to see what's a "pianola". Thanks for sharing it, very nice ❤️

[@jeevankrishnan17]

Same! 🙌

[@leldelaugale7195]

Same haha!

[@timg3504]

Loved it. Also let Santa know you need sock for Christmas 😃. You know us guys get socks for Christmas and Father’s Day.

[@Mason_bluegrass]

very nice sounding piano

[@vcow]

Amazing device!

[@LuanMMello]

Thank you sir, that was really cool!

[@AheadMatthewawsome]

They have a Pinola at the May Gibbs Nutcote in Sydney, Australia. I was able to have a go not too long ago, and it played this same song! Was pretty cool trying it out!

[@semnome9536]

I didn't know it existed. If I saw a piano and it started to play on its own, I'd run away for my life.

[@jubogregorio3740]

I was curious about the piano in the series 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE..that there is a piano that works like CD player

[@Da_Skinny_Mann]

I recently got the opportunity to actually play one of these. It was so amazing.

[@alexbenz370]

1:53 you have to admit that is a bit scary

[@mabe7368]

Yeah XD

[@sonnycrockett6992]

No, it's an awesome mechanism, and still impressive.

[@robertchristie9434]

Back in the early 50s, my dad received a free player piano from one of our neighbors in southwest Detroit. All he had to do was remove it from their dining room to our sunroom. Upon getting it home, he refurbished it. It operated by pumping 2-foot pedals & I remember inscribed inside the door where the rollers were placed said it was built in 1913. We bought the music rolls at Grinnell's. Great times & memories.

[@jooljool1055]

Is a classic song in this instrument, very well y so cool

[@umopapisdnupsidedown2938]

Thank you Kanye, very cool!

[@millierose919]

I've just bought one of these in beautiful condition for $60 including a whole box of rolls. 😊

[@PiotrBarcz]

How did you get one for $60?! The cheapest one I could find online was for $200 and it was pretty dirty! The next cheapest was $800!

[@millierose919]

@@PiotrBarcz My next door neighbour didn't want it, was actually going to destroy it. I offered my left over grocery money & they agreed. I just got it tuned & they tuner told me it's a Hood brand by Beale 1925 & it's worth over $5000.

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@millierose919 You are SO LUCKY!

[@millierose919]

@@PiotrBarcz Thank you, I've waited my whole life for one 🦋

[@tuileriesantiques9057]

that’s great! i see them free here, they’re quite common here, but to get one working is a blessing! you got a deal!

[@Mega2Sakaura]

I'm amused :l never knew this thing existed XD

[@springfield7630]

Haven't you ever watched the woody woodpecker? lol

[@mrmoonradar8921]

you should have been entertained 😏

[@jcfuentesramon2317]

Thanks for shaing. It's great!

[@8avexp]

Player pianos are so cool! My niece's husband has one, and I even managed to bring one octave back up to snuff, pitch-wise, without having to completely retune it! Although it has been electrified, it still has foot pedals to manually pump the exhaust bellows.

[@staceymassey5299]

So awesome :)

[@qcasey]

Marvelous!!!

[@Benlongy]

good job !

[@tlaferriere]

Thank you for sharing!

[@robertwesex6490]

Beautiful & same speed as B.C Electric in 1898!

[@thatboyagain]

I bought this for my airbnb, installed the Exorcist theme sheet and set it to go off at 3am

[@brandelemke7139]

very nice !!!😍

[@rakeau]

I have a Pianola in my family, I have it on offer to me, but I've not the space for it - hopefully I can figure something out. It needs restoration, but it's complete. Looks not the same but very, very similar to your one. I remember playing it a lot as a kid, probably driving my grandparents nuts in the process 😆

[@natehollingsworth1927]

I don't think that people realize just how much of a workout pumping a player is

[@SunburntPrints]

Nate Hollingsworth maybe that's where my back and ankle issues come from!

[@natehollingsworth1927]

oh no!

[@kasseyr1]

Nate Hollingsworth....I feel like I've done a 10km run after about 3 rolls....lol

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

Player reed organs like the Aeolian Orchestrelle are even harder as they use more than twice the energy of a piano as in addition to the player itself they also need additional energy to sound the reeds.

[@AuroranMinistryofPropaganda]

Think of doing it with shoes or boots

[@pitchmak3r75]

Yep those are some bootiful socks :3

[@flowertrue]

Those things are so damn cool

[@JohnDoe-zh4li]

Nonetheless, a beautiful musical piece and Pianola!

[@gasake8]

Somebody is here too because of Pietro Crespi?

[@LuciusVorenusCL]

Juan Pablo Claro saludos desde Macondo

[@Loirinhaaa1]

hahah eu

[@bernhardstramann6618]

Juan Pablo Claro No, but of Charlie Chaplin or Stan Laurel.

[@jkrrishnan]

me :D

[@amagiordi2615]

Oh I didn't think I would find others

[@yorick22]

Great socks there mate

[@e.arturocastro-frenzel8002]

I still wonder how much know-how it required to build such an instrument. Certainly it was not the work of one person alone, but it took a lot of imagination, creativity and... not the last: money! Great you still have and enjoy it. Hopefully it will last for many many many generations!

[@johngolemba9344]

A fine job Playing The Entertainer on the Pianola. Really sounds as if it were played by the master, Scott Joplin.

[@h.s1287]

impresionante maquina!

[@zacharywilliams8507]

good going with the player piano

[@iso_master]

MIDI files in 1920's:

[@lulux8040]

Thanks to a book (The night of the hunter) that I know what this is. it looks so cool :D Wish I had one

[@metalman4141]

Just fantastic i want one but with three jukeboxes in the house the wife isn’t keen on the idea 😩

[@looneytunes5590]

Matt Pedwell Gee 😂

[@madskyltd]

TOO COOL!!!

[@СемейныйархивДругаля]

Вот такой, только черного цвета был в нашей семье 60-70е годы прошлого века. Только записи были классические. Часами слушал. Here it is, only black was in our family in the 60s and 70s of the last century. Only the recordings were classic. I listened for hours.

[@sandigliewe2015]

We used to have an old piano like this, until it took a dive off a truck 🙁

[@PiotrBarcz]

Oof, sorry to here that.

[@alexvanzyl_official]

F

[@jollylawyer9999]

Sorry to here that bud😅

[@brookewilsonclemons7975]

That would be my son’s favorite truck: the ice cream truck!

[@СемейныйархивДругаля]

Моя семья имела такой инструмент в 1960-70 годы. Я на ней "играл" часами.. My family had such a tool in the 1960s and 70s. I "played" on it for hours..

[@katiehowe3764]

I came here to learn what a pianola was after learning that Albert Ammons learned chord structure using one - am very pleasantly surprised

[@Iloveflowers2024]

Fantastic. You have to go to thrift shops that sell second hand things to look for pianola scrolls. Crafters have started buying them and then cut them up and use them for crafting which is a shame as they are kind of rare and there's still pianolas in use that could still play them.

[@AverageAvgeekYT]

i dont get why they cut them when they could still be used

[@Iloveflowers2024]

@@AverageAvgeekYT I know, I think it's sad. I see other things cut up too like really old books which makes me gasp. 😂 I suppose it's a way of upcycling. Maybe these things would just get trashed otherwise, I don't know.

[@itsjawzgaming]

4:10 be kind and rewind

[@birdwife589]

That’s cool

[@benhannah2350]

I have a pianola at home and the roll looks 100 💯 yrs old 😂

[@Bismuth9]

Hello! I am making a video that explains a concept called Tool-Assisted speedrunning. In short, since it is a sequence of inputs being played back, I compare it to a player piano, or pianola. I would like to use a short clip of your video to illustrate the piano and the roll of paper with notes punched in it. I display the source of the clips I use in the corner of the video for clips like that. Are you ok with me using it?

[@SunburntPrints]

Sure thing mate, go for it!

[@Bismuth9]

@@SunburntPrints Thank you!

[@SunburntPrints]

Not sure. the roll just has 'The entertainer' hand written on it.

[@Thefirefan15]

How this works is similar to a music box the pins would go plug the levers and play the tune but this is with holes in a paper

[@johnkuzma7066]

Its done pneumatically, the holes in the paper collapse the vacuum and then through a series of whimsical events actuate the keys.

[@ilikeceral3]

I wonder if you could make it play rush e

[@Ih8kone]

They still make these but they are electric.

[@marcgoodman4228]

Good piano NAME of piano and Name of Roll COmpany and performer and PLEASE, use the levers to give some expression Thanks

[@spookdoggtv6917]

Not asking for much are ya, have you even subscribed to his channel? 🙄

[@janecafarella4947]

I recently bought a "restored" Schulz pianola but it's a bit of a work out and not easy to get the pedalling rhythm right. Yours looks a lot easier. You mentioned that it's not as easy as it looks but I'm wondering whether it just takes practice or I've bought a dud!

[@SunburntPrints]

Jane Cafarella It takes practice, I've been playing this for about 30 years! You kind of feel where the pedals provide a pumping action into the bellows so you don't always need to press them all the way down or let them come all the way back up again.

[@PiotrBarcz]

If you have to pump really fast then the piano leaks suction. Best to get a player restored by a professional.

[@salvadorguerreroarocha1798]

Que ingeniosos.!!!

[@madskyltd]

but what are the foot pedals for?

[@madskyltd]

that is cool as hell. so it is like an old pump organ? is there a regulator of some kind that keeps a constant pressure to the piano so it plays at an even speed, or if you pump too fast it will cause the song to play faster (or slower)? thanks for the share. i love these things...mechanical orchestra's, etc

[@SunburntPrints]

yep!

[@kennnethnutt9300]

The speed is regulated by the pianola setting,slow steady pumping is all that's needed,if you are pumping your guts out it means the pipes or bellows are leaking,well over a hundred bellows and pipes to possibly leak.The pedals are worked by ones ankles and soles of the feet,the legs don't need to move.Hope this helps explain.

[@cheese-yx4jv]

madskyltd hello!!

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@madskyltd There's a suction reservoir to keep the pumping even.

[@Miquel396]

Los pedales mueven el mecanismo como en las maquinas de coser y como en las maquinas de escribir o como las camaras fotograficas maneja un rollo o papel es parecido pero no igual porque ya esta en el rollo es tan genial

[@tonywestonuk]

Fully digital, long before computers came along..... - Recording is digital comprises of 0's and 1's (gap, or no gap), which could be duplicated without loss. - Sounds as good today, as it ever did. Just like a CD

[@enriquediazarellano1866]

Can l have the songs name? Please.

[@PiotrBarcz]

The Entertainer

[@alexabot8969]

Cool

[@DARGARRETT]

question: why/how does the pianola work? (like what are the holes' functionality)

[@charlesvandergrift3126]

It's vacuum operated I believe. His foot pedaling makes the vacuum to run the machine and the holes allow a mechanism to actuate which strikes the strings and plays the notes. I'm not exactly sure what the mechanism is that lies between the holes in the paper and the hammers which hit the strings, but I imagine it must be similar to a pneumatic cylinder.

[@DARGARRETT]

alright thanks.

[@PiotrBarcz]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano

[@vintagesavoiur]

Now there's a piece of antique furniture that can talk!

[@PiotrBarcz]

It's in pretty damn good condition cosidering the speed of your pedaling! I have a pump in my piano and a pedal unit but I use the pump, the sound is better.

[@BigandBad99]

You have any info on the roll?

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@BigandBad99 I wish I did, I don't know anything about it though. It's an Australian Mastertouch roll.

[@marcosPRATA918]

Uma raridade.

[@JaneDoe-yx7rl]

They're spooky👻

[@JavierGonzalez-og6rq]

Wow😮

[@eriknestaas2270]

Can a piano roll indicate dynamics?

[@PiotrBarcz]

Yup, Duo-Art, Ampico, Welte even control the dynamics automatically, most rolls just have a line.

[@fatihyucel8611]

how is it work system ??

[@PiotrBarcz]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano

[@datnikkakleint7659]

Played so different

[@wyatt6109]

My player is broken and out of tune. 😞

[@ideallyjekyl5200]

A tuning hammer costs about 40 dollars and learning how to tune a piano is priceless.

[@skeelr311]

Ideally Jekyl don't forget broken

[@TheCornishGingerOfficial]

@@skeelr311 how to fix a piano is also priceless 😂

[@PiotrBarcz]

That's to bad. You can still play it if you get it tuned though :-).

[@mirrormirror5515]

is it possilbe to use pianola as usual piano?

[@bobu5213]

How much does one cost, do they still make them new? And does it also work as a piano?

[@joshuagabriel-black614]

+BoBu The prices range iv seen them go for a few hundred but next weekend i'am picking one up for free. I don't think they make them anymore but they are relatively easy to come by. And yes you can you it as a normal piano as well.

[@bobu5213]

Joshua Gabriel-Black Ah good. Now say I would buy one for 750 or something how much would it cost for restoring it, like new strings and hammers or to tune and voice them. Also where would I find one?

[@joshuagabriel-black614]

Just have a look on gumtree and i have no clue how much it would cost to fix up

[@bobu5213]

Joshua Gabriel-Black Okay thanks

[@cheriesanders9616]

yes they do work like a regular piano! :)

[@apersonyoumayknow6130]

It sound good at 1.25 speed

[@ozzietadziu]

Who arranged (played) this roll?

[@gedekawanee4730]

Where i can buy pianola

[@PiotrBarcz]

Ebay, usually a few options.

[@andreshurtadobenavides8499]

Excuseme, Do you know how much it cost?

[@PiotrBarcz]

These will cost anywhere from nothing to $10.000. Hope this helps!

[@cheese-yx4jv]

Idk

[@oldgoat381]

what brand of pianola is this?

[@PiotrBarcz]

It's Australian so there are only a few companies.

[@HouHou909]

0:33 Harry Potter?!

[@princereyes2094]

The wands

[@keemez]

Is it just me, or does the beginning have a somewhat BackToTheFuture-esque element to it? Buildup to the big BYOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWW.....

[@luchobaraglia]

genial