Player piano "The Entertainer"

This was my latest project. I picked it and 68 rolls of music up for little of nothing because it didn't work. Honestly, it didn't take much to get it running again. There was a rats nest in the vacuum box that had wedged into the motor brushes and didn't allow contact. A general cleanup, adjustment, and repairing a few parts had it in pretty good shape.

[@airborne2876]

1900s piano player guy: "Well there goes my job"

[@simonedaishi5290]

not really, they still needed at least a random guy sitting there competent enough to fake it, otherwise people would freak the hell out cause they would think the piano was haunted

[@sirecartier7881]

THEY ARE STEALING OUR JOBS !

[@ThiefInLaw]

Damn, disruptive technology!

[@Drakelx55]

@@simonedaishi5290 Yes and no, they did need someone sitting there but not because people would freak out over the piano. Pianolas were well known by the public, but at least in the 1900's they required someone to manually pump the pianos pedals to power the motor inside. Later pianos like this were made to be electrical and even some antique ones were modified to be electrical.

[@historygirl6732]

earlier versions required someone to pedal it with their feet.

[@rzeka]

damn, that invisible guy is pretty good

[@Oliver0200]

not one mistake

[@phantrash1849]

Oliver but look at his hands! Works too hard at that piano

[@nathancardenas2891]

rzeka *invisable asian

[@cryogeneric9139]

rzeka It's a ghost

[@anonosfm]

*it's a trap!!!!*

[@Jammer439y8]

Imagine using this as a Halloween decoration, so when the Trick or Treaters look through the window, they will see that the piano is playing itself

[@edelweiss-]

and then a grammophon playing :)

[@edelweiss-]

or imagine you do a hologram where acreepy ghosts sits there and you program it so it looks like a ghost palys this piano in real life xDD

[@ChristopherWorkman1996]

Shaggy: "Zoinks, ghosts!" Scooby: "Rhost!" Velma: "It's not a ghost! It's a player piano." Shaggy: "So who's playing it?!" Velma: "It's automatic"

[@-ThIs-609]

​@Jessica Peterson at the start of the video u can see, that there are glass sliding doors to cover that up!

[@spingleboygle]

@Jessica Peterson they’d probably never seen a self-playing piano like this one, and would not know what’s going on inside and why there’s even a roll of paper

[@nickyoung630]

Imagine setting one of these up in an abandoned church and waiting for an urban explorer to walk in and scaring the crap out of them XD

[@KAMALAISHERNAME]

Nick Young 😂😂😂😂

[@TheDipperPinez27]

10 Billion IQ

[@fatlessauto3]

They had one of these in an old Scooby Doo episode and it had that exact effect lol!

[@knottreel]

Oh, you watch that too!

[@PiotrBarcz]

That is the funniest idea I've heard involving a player-piano! Love it!

[@NukTap]

*when a piece of paper can play piano better than you*

[@TrolloLogics]

When a screwdriver can screw in a screw better then you! ;)

[@simonedaishi5290]

well, there goes my motivation wait.. what motivation?

[@PiotrBarcz]

These replies and this comment are SO FUNNY!!! BUAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

[@octoowen1234]

when a jack hammer can drill better than you ;)

[@TheMan087]

Oh why howdyhowdy, funny to find you here!! It appears you too have good taste in content 😳

[@ravensrayne]

The keys on any piano are wood, but the overlays can be made of ivory, bone, or synthetic. This piano has synthetic ivory caps.

[@theragingcyclops3040]

ravensrayne I never knew

[@blurofmusic]

fun fact, old pianos like those, normally its quite easy to tell what is what, because wooden keys are only white on the top and a brown on the sides that other keys hide, only the keys are white from what the eye can see and I think it was changed to fully white for the 80s or 90s pianos?

[@RobHoffman83]

@@blurofmusic fyi, this piano is most likely from the 1980s. They switched key top material from Ivory to Mylar in the late 19 teens then to plastic a few years later.

[@spingleboygle]

so you can make a piano using wood AND bones!?!. amazing.

[@SheepInCabbage]

They should place this in a "haunted house" somewhere..

[@TrolloLogics]

xD

[@ruairidaly6452]

Definately... this is somehow really disconcerting

[@MrDrJonas]

SheepInCabbage but they should probably replace the song... this song is just way too amusing to be scary

[@ge200099]

Would be expensive i guess

[@Drakelx55]

Everyone: OMG A PIANO PLAYING ITSELF! Me: OMG A PLAYER PIANO! I HAVENT SEEN ONE BEFORE

[@ruthieannwhiteapple349]

Beautiful. I've always wanted a self-playing piano. They're very lovely. I'm glad you got this one to work. More people need to put their minds to fixing gems like this up to make them last longer. There isn't any telling who has set at that piano and played it raw many times!

[@PiotrBarcz]

That is very, VERY true.

[@theloanranger2632]

I don't see you fixing any old gems up Ruthie. More people, like you, need to work on themselves instead of being critical busy-bodies that care about everyone else's business.

[@ruthieannwhiteapple349]

@@theloanranger2632 My comment is so innocent and yours is very uncalled for. Who hurt you? And by the way, you don't know whether I fix them up or not, now do you? Pitiful. Try taking your own advice and staying out of my business.

[@blurofmusic]

@@theloanranger2632 Not to get involved, but I think Ruth was saying it as a compliment to the person who uploaded the video and done up the piano, you don't have to get involved in anyone's buisness, and Ruth has a right to upload what they want to upload. They don't have to upload everything they do. Not sure what kind of mood you are in now, but 6 months ago tells another story.

[@kaylasworldtm472]

I actually really like the way it sounds out of tune. This video is so awesome!

[@KariIzumi1]

I know, right? And since it's not playing with any other instrument, it's not most will even notice.

[@kaylasworldtm472]

+Chinchilla Man (Chinchilla Man 69) thanks! And my favorites gotta be "if I needed someone" off of rubber soul. It's definitely a recent favorite of mine? How about yours?

[@TomBom292]

Kayla Plante I do too

[@JuanManuelPlaceres]

Kayla Plante A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

[@BenjaminEsposti]

It sounds old-fashioned ... I think that is because the old video/audio recordings weren't always so accurate, especially when tape is used, so the pitches/tones are a little off. (Plus older electronics and microphones didn't have such good sound quality back then.)

[@Dumb_Killjoy]

Today I learned: A roll of literal paper can play piano better than I can.

[@ruairidhhiggins3736]

The 1900's Synthesia

[@marlliteras6515]

lma0

[@fredricgreenblott4169]

*black and white silent film of a bar fight intensifies*

[@tylenol544]

the fourth white key is stuck in place XD

[@botchamaniajeezus]

cannot unnotice

[@wj11jam78]

You mean the D is stuck?

[@Souls_p_]

must be why it's played in a different key

[@0icekold7]

Pounicoss just a really long note

[@NickJay]

@@botchamaniajeezus Until right at the end when it pops up again ... cannot unnotice that either. lol

[@wardcartoonmaker]

Early stages of MIDIs... just thought to bring that out

[@TestFilmProductions]

+Wardcartoonmaker get out now

[@wardcartoonmaker]

Okay :( (Walks out head down Frowning)

[@TomBom292]

Wardcartoonmaker Hah, that does seem like it!

[@sethhorst6158]

Grant Pauley, Wardcartoonmaker has done nothing wrong.

[@mbw6785]

It’s true

[@beepergeedle1942]

The old saloon sound goes good with this song.

[@beefjerky8889]

wow Synthesia was so cool in the 1900's

[@PiotrBarcz]

Darn right it was! The sound was better to. (grumbling voice) Not like the GS Wavetable Synth that's on Windows.

[@judgejudy7283]

Just like most things in the 1900s

[@sauter_120_upright_piano]

@@PiotrBarczturn to god.

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@sauter_120_upright_piano Get away from me.

[@jeopardy60611]

I studied piano when I was a kid in the 70s, and I can play by ear and have composed pop music. I find it fascinating that the "player piano" was a way to play a song on a piano automatically before MIDI was invented. In this day and age, you have a MIDI sequence in the form of a computer file, and you run a MIDI cable from the computer or sequencer to the piano or electronic keyboard.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Midi is the digital version of the self playing piano roll and is why in all DAWs the sequencer is called a "Piano Roll".

[@jessicastockert1955]

What I would do to own one of these!!! I love them! So antique! I love out of tune pianos too because they sound rustic and like your in one of those old western saloons! :)

[@ravensrayne]

Thank you

[@TheIKillThingsFilms]

You can actually get one for a pretty cheap price usually a working or semiworking player costs about 250 to 450 dollars. But you can get a working one for free if you look hard enough (that's how I got mine!). And some players in perfect condition can be worth over 20,000 dollars!

[@jessicastockert1955]

sweet! Haha when I get my own house some day in the future, Then I'll have to look for one. :) thanks for letting me know that!

[@robinsmith560]

Where did you look for you free one, it's awesome!

[@PiotrBarcz]

Nothing could be more correct to me than that!

[@samp619]

Very beautiful piano. I would love to hear other tunes on it.

[@alextavalesthemuppetmaniac5607]

This is like a magical piano that plays by itself.

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

Only "like"? It didn't just do it?

[@neuwbes]

I had a sleep paralysis that sounded just like this except for the intro and several seconds into it it started playing random notes, but the player seemed supernaturally talented

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

"Sleep paralysis"? Huhhh?

[@MegaSantiago200C]

Invisible MAN strikes again!

[@odst1703]

I can smell dust and wood from here

[@QuandtHenderson]

A good tuning might be in order unless you want that out of tune sound. Thanks for sharing, it's kindly appreciated and you did a great job on the repairs! Thanks again.

[@blubityblub]

According to my mom my friend had a player piano at his house and that I was obsessed with it, seems history repeats itself

[@ervinkorri4144]

reminds me of a certain distinguished gentleman walking in harlem.

[@Heisenberger_69]

Perhaps one who put the Forgis on the Jeep?

[@nathanielaranda8407]

A true timeless classic 😀

[@neeonyt]

I had one of those in my childhood with the exact same song! We had to sell it when we moved out but I loved spending mornings with music playing in the living room! I miss it so much haha

[@pauldickinson3961]

Congratulations, you played yourself.

[@botchamaniajeezus]

-.-

[@TomBom292]

*Inhales* Boi

[@PiotrBarcz]

It's an Aeolian. Not a Duo-Art, just a standard 88 note action. I like that fact that the roll doesn't go snapping in the spool box after the re-roll cycle for several seconds which is very abusive, it just stops the motor and slows down nicely.

[@ChrisPlaola]

This player piano was likely made some time in the 1970s or 1980s. Around that time, the interest in player pianos was so high, that Aeolian, one of the biggest player piano manufacturers from the player piano heyday decided to resume production of pneumatic players. The newer models were smaller console and spinet pianos, consistent with the trends at the time.

[@davidoppenheim3979]

@Bob Chris is correct about the age of this Aeolian player piano. It was made to look like a 1920's player piano but in the 1970's and 80's . Aeolian sadly went out of business around 1986 when the revival interest in player pianos was fading.

[@davisrs1]

We got ours in the 1940s, but it was much richer and darker wood.

[@datnikkakleint7659]

Imagine standing for 3:43 minutes recording a piano 👍🏼👍🏼

[@sabinkarkiofficial]

You don’t have to imagine it, the video is showing it right there

[@zsofi497]

I couldn't resist dancing or humming along

[@saturdaymourning5582]

Crazier things have been done in the name of entertainment and education. Lol

[@dewok2706]

Zoomers are so ADHD ridden that standing relatively still for 4 minutes is like climbing a mountain to them lololooololo

[@alexandercolgan7812]

In soviet Russia, piano plays you!

[@ChillChinCentral]

Still such a cool invention and so impressive for its time period. I can imagine they’re difficult to find these days!

[@SniperOnSunday]

The earliest known example of automation taking someone's job

[@randysweet7474]

Love Scott Joplin's The Entertainer. Known it forever!

[@KhanGarth]

it seems like it would require 2 people to play this song with some of the notes

[@tristanfour6233]

Yeah, and invisible too.

[@dylanreischling4151]

I love the out of tune high notes on the piano. It sounds so cool

[@rileysondermann6328]

Everybody gangsta til Jah starts playing the piano

[@GlowyTheGamer]

That ghost dude has got some talent, dang!

[@cuplord891]

I’d start this while my friends are in another room and quickly leave to a different room, so they’ll get freaked out when they find no one playing the piano.

[@manhunter433]

My Piano teacher had one in her house, if a student was good they'd be treated to a song with a otter pop

[@BMWe306]

A Masterpiece of Instrument :)

[@kwb200]

Somthing about old slightly out of tune pianos just sound fantastic. They have a ring that sounds just perfect nothing today sounds like the old upright bar style pianos

[@caleb3609]

“This piano plays me.”- -Other Father: Coraline

[@theasdadhdMexicanItalianmaggot]

I love the fact that it's of tune. gives an older vibe to it. love it.

[@EdKolis]

1:03 Mario uses a P-wing

[@xx03_p19]

The power of computation!

[@rbminer4567]

And it was made in the 1900's

[@ofeklotov1924]

I saw this on Westworld. Didn't know it was a thing.

[@jinchey]

Same haha. I was so confused as to how the robots were just ignoring this fururistic piano thing. Turns out they really existed in the wild west!

[@Caddy2006]

I love the sound of this Piano it’s amazing!

[@laurak3762]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this. I just love player pianos.

[@tomaserincasablancalarocqu5086]

Beautiful!

[@Purzify]

I didn't know John Cena was talented at the piano.

[@bryne7151]

Yeah he even inspired Scott to make that bear game

[@ThoroughbredRock]

You could play the most epic prank on someone....It's 1:00am and your friend is staying over....you sneak to the lounge and start this baby up....You rush in to your friend "OMG THE PIANO IS PLAYING BY...ITSELF" Your friend rushes out and....see's it and faints LOL

[@westking457]

ThoroughbredRock GENIUS!!!!!!GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!

[@elevatorfan7568]

ThoroughbredRock, lol. If I was there, I’d just sit there and listen to it play this song the whole night...

[@descore7578]

I loved these when I was a kid. Could watch for hours. This one is out of tune, and pretty bad, a good re-tune would do wonders, but nonetheless it retains its enticing quality.

[@PiotrBarcz]

I could watch for DAYS! HAHAHA!

[@hockeysockeys5323]

How old are you

[@KawaiiHippityHop-cl5bb]

Plot twist: you recorded a ghost playing the piano

[@etiennedauphin]

Congrats on repairing the player... I'd love to own one some day. Hope you keep it in good shape :) It's a good quarter tone flat, if not a little more, though.

[@elevatorfan7568]

It’s not flat at all. It is played in a different key.

[@nerd.dreams]

@Elevator Fan its not even a half step flat, it’s only a change that someone with extremely good relative pitch or in my case, perfect pitch. definitely flat.

[@ryujisimp5835]

I've been looking for this song! It took me ages!

[@a.j.swierzbinski6225]

I think it sounds just fine the way it is! People have their own opinions on this hisroric piano

[@hexagon6922]

A.J. Swierzbinski Nononononono! There are no different opinions. I HAS to be tuned.

[@a.j.swierzbinski6225]

Hexagon "I HAS to be tuned" Wait, so YOU want to be tuned, eh? That sounded weird as hell man

[@a.j.swierzbinski6225]

Hexagon what is the definition of 'I Has'?

[@PiotrBarcz]

I have been telling that to other youtubers for the past 15 minutes! Thank you for having the same opinion as me!

[@yankleber]

I love those honky-tonky pianos.

[@sladeooficial7331]

not a honk tink. honk tonks are loud no matter what and they have a more of a harpischord sound

[@crazyllamakids1140]

This is amazing

[@ChristianHDD]

I randomly remembered, as a young kid, my godparents had a piano like this with probably 80 “music scrolls” I used to love picking out a random box, pulling out the scroll, hooking it up and “playing the piano” the one they had you’d pump foot pedals. Wow.. Feels like another life that I did that.

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

"Music scrolls" in quotes? Why: is that not what they _actually_ are?

[@ChristianHDD]

@@HelloKittyFanMan Fair enough 😂

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

@@ChristianHDD: So if you agree now, and since you're already OK with editing comments here, then go ahead and edit the quotes off from around it for future readers (which will take less work than typing up a denial reply would).

[@Viruz02020]

Some chords are broken and the piano is out of tune... i love it😍

[@elevatorfan7568]

I personally love it to. But this isn’t out of tune, it is just played in a different key instead of the original. But I really do like the sound!!

[@elevatorfan7568]

@@flexiblepaper7389 Yeah looking back now it definitely is out of tune. Guess I didn’t pick that up when I first made that comment.

[@MegaZidzid]

Večeras u Vašem i Našem gradu, Ton Filmovi!!!

[@NickJay]

Wow I've never seen an electric player piano before, although played a few pedal ones. :)

[@PiotrBarcz]

That's cool because you have more control.

[@PiotrBarcz]

I've seen an electric GRAND player and man that thing was LOUD.

[@HelloKittyFanMan]

I'm surprised you've never even seen a modern one, that runs on MIDI actuation instead of air.

[@PonyGangPowerGirl2022]

Death Burner: AAAAGH! A ghost! Glaze: That's just a player piano. It's a piano that plays itself. Nothing to worry about.

[@joeyhartemink900]

0:13 vacuum cleaner

[@sonnythefrenchfry]

joey hartemink it’s actually made of vacuums motors lol

[@KaityKat117]

Not actually all that far off. Pianolas are run with a negative air pressure system. It has large bellows on the bottom from which air is removed to create a partial vacuum which, through a series of valves and tubes, actuates the hammers that strike the strings playing the music. The earliest models of pianolas used pedals that the pianist would push with their feet to suck the air out, but after the advent of the electric motor, they started using those. Basically, it is like a vacuum cleaner hooked up to the bellows.

[@nathanielaranda8407]

joey hartemink it does sound like a vacuum cleaner 😀

[@J19_vlogger74]

When the Ice cream truck comes; We all scream, for ICE CREAM!

[@the_random_channel1234]

This would make a good haunted house prop * self playing piano *

[@dr.birb_tf2]

to think that in the olden times this was advanced shows how humanity has evolved throughout the years

[@jenn7768]

that is awesome!

[@monsantogmo505]

I would LOVE to buy one of these for my perants!

[@hainaver8702]

kinda creepy, but still awesome. like the sound you've heard in old western saloon

[@blackwolf4827]

Is beautiful, my favorite song piano ❤️

[@jimbacon8350]

Love it!

[@dewok2706]

what a swaggy...utterly BUSSIN tune.

[@Simon-mv2xm]

Creepy but cool

[@LasVegar]

Simon 1 whats crappy

[@ludvigfrestadius8653]

Your spelling

[@ludvigfrestadius8653]

You don't need punctuation when there is only one sentence. It's used to mark out that "this is the end of the sentence and now there comes another sentence". In this case, my other comment only had one sentence and there is no need for punctuation. You can also see this in the title of the video. There is no "Next" sentence, so a dot is not needed. (If this is misleading, don't blame me. Blame my cheap school)

[@simonedaishi5290]

that only makes it even cooler to me

[@michram]

I always loved the usage of this robotic piano in "Westworld"

[@Eri.262]

*sets up in abandoned area where someone states there gonna explore*. *waits* *hears footsteps*. *turns on machine when they step closer* *enjoy the surprised screams as you watch there live stream*

[@hannahwilliams74]

When I was a kid I remember seeing one of these things in a Sears or something. It used to scare the shit out of me idk why 😂

[@anansya]

Hi! I’m a prospective film applicant applying to the nyu film program. Can i use a few seconds of this video in my movie? I will credit you and this video in the end of my movie and can also send it to you if you want. If you have any other conditions please let me know as I would love to use this scene in my move. Thank you!

[@yahiralvarez9807]

No response 😭

[@husky_studios]

Still no response 1 year later.

[@husky_studios]

I think I might buy this scroll. If I do, I’ll take a vid of it and send it to ur e-mail or something if u want

[@liamwatson5125]

A ghost plays The Entertainer. The ghost must be a very good pianist.

[@aristocrat_000G]

needs a basic tuning, would sound a lot less spooky, honestly I am amazed at the level of technology~ thank you for sharing this~ Jayster

[@SecondCitySanctioned]

This will forever be the ice cream man song to me

[@_thisnameistaken]

Turkey in the Straw is the ice cream man song!

[@LingTheBug]

I wish I could have it, it's so awesome!

[@PiotrBarcz]

You're in the same hole as me man!

[@typical947]

They should use theese in horror movies more

[@historygirl6732]

I have a player piano. My family hasn't used it in years. It still has Dixie in it. Scary part is, it goes off randomly sometimes. It's not even the electric kind like this one. It requires a human being. To sit at the piano. pedaling it. with their feet. So now I think I'm haunted.

[@PiotrBarcz]

I have a player piano with pedals in it, I did put an electric pump in it though, the pedals don't supply enough suction.

[@ZerryBerrytheSpaceRaccoon]

The way it's detuned sounds so creepy...I love it-

[@ravensrayne]

It's quite out of tune also Russ lol

[@mattb1195]

Pretty badly but it does kind of make it sound old...😏🎹🎹🎹🎹🎼🎶

[@crazyfrogvlogger8141]

***** Its not out of tune, it just old and wont sound like pianos will play now adays

[@SianaGearz]

+CrazyFrogVlogger How can you claim that it's not out of tune because it is very obviously is out of tune. And piano sound hasn't really changed much in a LONG while, like there are hundred year old pianos which sound the same as newer ones. Desireable sounding pianos got easier to obtain though since Japanese picked up the business.

[@joshuacheng8830]

+ravensrayne The reason it sounds so out of tune is because it is being played in B-flat major when the original is C major. However, the piano is also flat by a semitone, so it is out of tune.

[@nathandavis3002]

+CrazyFrogVlogger firstly it is out of tune, secondly that piano isnt terribly old.

[@Wolfenstein49]

I'd shit myself if I walked into a room and saw this....

[@WolfgangXP65-67]

OOP! The Bb key playing the A note, that's when you know that it's in Baroque tuning. Here's history. Before the late 1700s-1800s, the tuning in music was a half step below what we hear now, but there were issues with it, so people tuned newer instruments a half step up to help make flat keyed songs be written without the composer being questioned.

[@jegr3398]

Seems legit

[@joemama-ej7kw]

I think its just out of tune

[@4kydzmy]

I learned to play this songs when I was 8, btw sounds good :D

[@MementoMori0915]

Just imagine you are at a friends place or family members and you didn’t know they had this piano and they turned it on during the middle of the night just to scare you. 😶 I don’t know about you but I’d be horrified…and then I’d probably start dancing because I legitimately like this song. 😂

[@isaacflapjack]

I FOUND IT AFTER ALL THESE YEARS IVE FINALLY FOUND IT

[@drmontakapronoob]

Thanks I’m gonna put this in an abandoned place now

[@daddyslilmonster1882]

That's cool how these kind of pianos play themselves and people should have these in schools

[@pppianissimo]

Man, this piano really needs a tuning :D

[@Unus_Annus_]

I think it gives it a more saloon sound

[@lisasweeney970]

My grandmother played this all the time and she said her uncle Hanes Crawford was a famous pianist ❤❤❤❤

[@hwqh]

Piano plays itself better than I can? Was it made in Asia?

[@T_for_teth]

No. Its made in china

[@Judyp77]

TyloniumTV ......uummm, you do know China is an Asian country, right?

[@rayrayproductions7324]

Judyp77 😂😂😂

[@TheInkPitOx]

Probably made in America if it's that old.

[@mrstecdude1236]

the player pianos were made by the french.

[@Benicio_Fols]

Woah! That’s so cool!