Rag Medley - Joe Rinaudo at the American Fotoplayer

[@nytrodioxide]

The slidewhistle noise makes me so happy, it's an inexplicable feeling of pure childish mirth and merriment

[@Tweaked_ej6]

I really need to know the exact name of that noise because I love it.

[@TheJakeman789]

I thinks it so gay.

[@RG-zh1rj]

@@TheJakeman789I just laugh when I hear it, it’s such a stupid sound 😂😂

[@AnybodyButMiogloy]

@@TheJakeman789 You are gay

[@SharpBalisong]

RIght?!?!

[@JuanGonzalez-ei8br]

He’s the DJ at the rave of madness that is going on in my head.

[@aleixssbu]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@CZghost]

Imagine how that would actually sound on an actual silent film screening. Organist playing this instrument and the moving picture on the screen. Incredible :)

[@iMarsiTV]

actually actual

[@SquirrelASMR]

​@ak.bloood you got a beautiful mind

[@sugarbxnny741]

“So, what instrument do you play?” “Everything. At once.”

[@Pigroooo]

I guess you could say... he is a one man band.

[@jmcieslak0]

"Yes"

[@hodor3767]

@@Pigroooo a one man circus

[@spzm3x]

one day no one in the world will know how to play or even repair this amazing piece of history. They will just admire how complex and amazing this music instrument was.

[@ikonhero]

Exactly what I was thinking. Must be preserved somehow.

[@davebowles1957]

This young man is finding, and fixing these marvels, making his own replacement parts and using other photoplayer parts he has come across to do it all. Check him out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2imlXeFmsmjl6s

[@Nooticus]

^ this. so sad

[@evo5dave]

The only way Joe's neighbours remain sane is by watching silent movies on loop.

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

LOL No doubt!!

[@sinusis6843]

😂😂😂

[@Zyymurgy]

I laughed out loud at the slide whistle pull, that's amazing. I keep thinking I've heard every sound this instrument can make, and then I watch some more videos.

[@jaypaint4855]

It has a klaxon also lol

[@RH-ib7bg]

Nobody on earth can watch this and not be entertained. Therapeutic not just because the upbeat music but the pure joy of seeing someone doing what they truly love to do. I always watch to the very end to see his exhausted smile and laughter. Hahaha

[@SquirrelASMR]

See how he rotates his wrist when yanking two chords in one hand to emphasize the rhythm by changing the balance between the two sounds. Pretty cool to see he's putting that much thought into every action... unless he's just doing that as a dance move and flourish, but subconciously our brains do link these movements to sounds even when we don't realize it, it's part of feeling the music and letting the instrument be not just an extension of your body, but your existence.

[@massapower]

Who needs a Band when you have JOE and the FOTOPLAYER 😁👍🏻😎🤟

[@MrKlausbaudelaire]

"so, how many sounds you want this fotoplayer to be able to do?" "yes"

[@yakovhadash]

When you have a quiet night at home with your sweetie, get a glass of wine, dim the lights… and put this on

[@captainspock3p07]

If you're both cool, you are the one playing it and she is enjoying it.

[@sephnitomsol2294]

WINNING THE GIRLS 101 RIGHT HERE

[@djtmkofficialmusic]

"songs you can fuck to"

[@MichaelDeMersLA]

Until u pull out your wang and ur girl make the drooping slide whistle sound effect

[@ianarenas6710]

It Is such a nice and comforting date I made it in last Christmas dinner, it was a so joyful night

[@SpellboundWolf]

Everything in my life has lead up to finding this channel. He's tearing it up!

[@Foxxorz]

How could you ever be bored with one of these in your house? Endless amusement.

[@_kommandant_3055]

This things got everything! Even a car horn!

[@jensg367]

Yeah. GREAT!

[@kaspernbs]

2 of them in fact.

[@jaypaint4855]

They were used in silent movies actually lol

[@gccwang24]

Ah yes, some music will soothe my jangled nerves. (*plays this video*)

[@alwaysbearded1]

You sir are having too much fun. You are amazing. Your love of the instrument and the music comes through. Wish our local movie theater had one of these in it. The organ is not enough!

[@MrJameslascko]

This man is a national treasure!! So cool...

[@cronos7434]

there is something about this that bring so much joy to my heart.

[@protomechanics]

All of the greatest achievements of human invention has lead to the creation of this magnificent machine

[@monkeytennis7477]

God help the neighbors who live downstairs every time this thing gets rolling! Hit It Joe!!!

[@DrRemuss]

Zweeeeeeeeehhhh* best sound ever 02:19

[@muzhikforchaplin1203]

I like the one better at 4:24-4:26

[@koop-xcie7715]

You gotta Imagine the challenge it is to sell a house in that neighborhood “So we have a backyard with a tool shed included,5 living rooms including one with a mezzanine , a security exit on roof of the attic, a window in the kitchen with straight view on Toon Town’s nightclub”

[@fishpotpete]

You're the Van Halen of American Fotoplayers :-) Awesome performance!

[@pipzoww]

this instrument exudes silliness and wonder

[@colin_curtin]

What better word to describe this than whimsical

[@ronleunissen]

This is what people need on a cold, windy, wet, winter's day to cheer them up!

[@Illuminati804]

Joe the legend This man should remembered

[@lawrencephelps3181]

Wow! My grandmother used to play the piano to accompany silent films in DC at the Liberty Theater on North Capitol in the late teens. She would have loved it. In her words "No fool no fun!".

[@deweyhassig]

He gets more exercise than any musician I've ever seen. Great music, great instrument, great musician.

[@CrampedGrampy]

This gentleman genuinely plays this instrument. WoW! Thankee very much.

[@k.m.slattery6263]

Joe! You are my hero ‼️❤️🙌😆

[@DavidMajorz]

Also including "I'm on the Rag"!

[@muzhikforchaplin1203]

I blast this on my car stereo like a maniac! I love this!

[@footlightnotes]

This made me laugh out loud with pleasure. More please!!

[@footlightnotes]

I laughed with PLEASURE, you dolt! And I don't find The Three Stooges funny at all.

[@carlhudson83]

+DeeJayMontevideo oh come on.. Even at the end Joe is grinning and blasting the horn with joy.. Go get your humour bypass checked out at the hospital you stuffy git..

[@serjoprot]

+DeeJayMontevideo lol you are such an idiot

[@alanahgrant4541]

I was having a terrible night until I saw this. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@RealTodFox]

Dude this instrument is so amazing!!! I would like to learn it someday!

[@rockyroad201012]

Such a jovial whimsical machine! Joe, I have upmost respect for you (coming from an accordion player) I love this & want one really bad

[@sweet.dreams]

THANK YOU for sharing this wonderful instrument!!! i got to see some silent movies accompanied by pipe organ in the late 50's but never a fotoplayer - this is just awesome

[@celsius82]

That's like a piano with all the plugins and the special percussion and organ pack add-on installed. Quite a download....from a truck!

[@Majinac1]

I love you gentleman! This is a big piece of film history. Big Thanks!

[@Fauzanarief-n7i]

Most underrated youtuber

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

This is an American photoplayer which replace the solo piano as an accompianment for silent movies.This sadly had a very short life as along came a certain Robert hope Jones who invented the Hope Jones unit Orchestra or " Mighty Wurlitzer as we know it which superseded the photoplayer. The rest is History!

[@andrewbarrett1537]

Andrew Smith Mostly correct in terms of the popularity of the instruments, but Hope-Jones built his first organs in England before 1900. He then moved to the USA and made a limited number of instruments with his small firm which went out of business around 1908 (I think) and was purchased by Wurlitzer. I think Wurlitzer built the first Hope-Jones unit orchestra pipe organ in 1910, and their first One-man Orchestra (trademark) photoplayer in 1913. The American Fotoplayer was invented by the Van Valkenburg brothers of California around 1910, and first built commercially around 1912, I think (Joe would have the exact date). Other builders like Seeburg introduced their line of Fotoplayers around 1914 or a year or two later. The greatest era of photoplayer popularity seems to have been around 1914-1921, although a few (like this one) were built later in the 1920s. The theatre pipe organs were not very successful at first due to their large size, cost, difficulty of playing (being unfamiliar to most organists used to classical and romantic pipe organs), and especially since most early "nickelodeon" theatres were of the small to medium size. By 1921, however, the theatre organ had definitely overtaken the photoplayer in popularity and quite a number of large photoplayers were taken in on partial trade for a new (small) theatre pipe organ around this time and later. Most of the remainder of photoplayers were junked after sound pictures came in and the depression hit, frequently with the piano being gutted to resell / use as a used "straight" (hand played) piano (some of these still turn up today), the drums repurposed for drummers, and occasionally some of the pipes repurposed in church organs, and the remainder destroyed. This was more true of Fotoplayers since, being in the orchestra pit, they were more "in the way" than were most theatre pipe organs which had the majority of the organ installed remotely in a chamber, with only the console itself in the orchestra pit, frequently having the organs remain intact in the chamber thru the revival of the 1950s/70s, so long as the theatre itself wasn't demolished, remodeled, or had air conditioning equipment etc installed in the organ chambers, which would then mean sale, removal, possibly junking of the organ.

[@jappedut9009]

Probably the most crazy instrument in the world but I love it ‼️ ❤️❤️❤️

By far my favorite tune on this channel.

[@Mrs.Karen_Walker]

Joe is an absolute LEGEND!

[@scottybimmer5904]

Joe, you really know how to cheer a guy up. Thank you!

[@NunsYoBidness]

Really need to find one of these and deliver it to my niece and nephew for Christmas.

[@jaredharris1940]

This is why I, m totally in love with my player!

[@Neonblue84]

great, simply great

[@JohnRay1969]

My great grandmother played in the silent movie theaters when she was young. She also played organ in several churches and other gigs.

[@zinxlifculezef8919]

this instrument made me actually laugh out loud! i loved every second of it

[@paulussantosowidjaja8390]

Hahahaha, Music is indeed so FUNtastic!!! Thank you for the FUN of sharing your way of playing music, Joe.

[@KingBLUCK]

This is my favorite instrument because its just quite literally an amalgam of several other instruments, seemly haphazardly thrown together.

[@billhall1983]

I am tired. I really could do with going to bed but there are so many of these I can't turn it off

[@TheMeaningfulWorkMaven]

Awesome! 🔥

[@dennisspinkshappyforbusker2523]

That's brilliant!

[@driftgmd]

Jolly good show!

[@M14aHRblx]

Greatest content ive seen

[@VigasArtRoom]

Playing this looks SO FUN!

[@SquirrelASMR]

4:22 epic yanking

[@gregbennett4254]

This is great !

[@kmakhlouf4387]

My goodness...what a fantastic machine. My compliments to Mr Rinaudo for holding on to this beauty (is there a Mrs Rinaudo? if I were she, I would def let you keep this thing around) you can't have antiques like this if you're living in apartments or those "tiny homes". This is why beautiful old things are disappearing all the millenials refuse to buy them or move them to their new homes.

[@kaelig.8569]

Sir, you look so happy, and I want to know how you got to playing this. I've never enjoyed a video so much in my life.

[@Ragtimer95]

What a fun interpretation of a bunch of my favorite rags! Thanks for uploading!

[@jensg367]

He is just incredibly good.

[@rafateo22]

Que lindo, que nostalgia.

[@ravinderblackmore]

Jo your possessed I LOVE IT ! 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃

[@MiticoRaimond]

4:24

OMGGGGGG 4:24

[@HerrFugbaum057]

🤣🤣🤣 Best Part xD

[@howardjohnson2138]

Wunderful! Thanks

[@psutherla]

Joe Rinaudo and Marc Rebillet need to get together for a jam session.

[@glennviking]

"So you want to create a machine that can make more sounds than a 100 person band?" "Yep" "... ok ... (wispers) someone call the mental ward."

[@BMAN818]

Love it

[@Mrquartermile]

I don’t fully understand what’s going on here but it’s super cool. Looks like he’s having a lot of fun playing.

[@ilaldkxb]

"Thats all folks!"

[@christianhernandez5239]

This is awesome!

[@estefannodelparral5326]

Very Amazing!

[@taikonspaceprogramme6771]

Hit it Joe!

[@olvinyldude]

I would be 6'3" and weigh 82.5 lbs if I had to play this everyday.. LOL..Great job, Joe ! A great play, from great time in history..I subbed for sure...AHHhhh- Ooooo- gah !

[@olvinyldude]

Yes, he is wonderful...Would love to see him perform. So great to see this kept on and preserved !

[@BoolianKazooka]

If ADHD was an instrument.

[@roos3013]

Fantastic!!!

[@lc237]

Amazing, the piano and your exuberant and masterful playing!

[@barrel9158]

Its a whole band!!!

[@ElClásicodelos30s]

im fan number 1 Joe Rinaudo and the Ftoplayer

[@jaroslav.karpycev]

Wow! It's awesome!

[@ИвановИван-щ5ю]

Super Great!!!

[@jeremyellismusic]

So killing it.

[@carlagalletti5287]

So fun to watch!!

[@HerculesRockefellerESQ]

I dunno why but the whistle gets me every time.e 😂😂

[@라이브러리-h8f]

legend of analog DJ

[@sokyu7723]

I want to learn to make songs on these so badly

[@MonsoonGeek]

Good Lord, how many people are left on the planet that can service/fix these things, let alone play one??

[@myotiswii]

I want to transcribe that for percussion ensemble. Maybe with marimba and vibraphone for melody even.

[@DownundaThunda]

I laughed so hard when he accidentally turned the light on.

[@ben-wp4vb]

turn the speed up and it gets even better

[@collinpribula3270]

I loved it!

[@whalesong999]

Wow, what mirth...!!

[@clowntownbrown75]

HIT IT JOE‼️‼️

[@DocSicnarf]

That guy would own this instrument.

[@ArbitraryOutcome]

Toby Fox composing the greatest song you've ever heard