"The Ragtime Dance" Joplin - Joe Rinaudo at the AmericanFotoplayer

Joe Rinaudo performing at the American Fotoplayer. "The Ragtime Dance" (1906) by Scott Joplin

[@alfredoeduardo1974]

Whoever built that mechanical wonder deserves a Nobel Prize!

[@lhtyeehaw1319]

I think they did, im not entirely sure tho

[@TomYale]

@@lhtyeehaw1319 Why would you think so if you're not sure?

[@TomYale]

Edward Leveaux invented and received the patent for the pianola in 1881 and the first performance of a working pianola occurred in 1879, and no, he didn't win the Nobel Prize.

[@lhtyeehaw1319]

@@TomYale i remember hearing something about it, but I dont remember if it was about the guy who made it or if the source i heard it from was reliable

[@TomYale]

@@lhtyeehaw1319 That's why claims require evidence. You could always look it up to be sure, like I did. And I found out that he didn't win the Nobel Prize.

[@PlayerPianoFavorites]

I listen to this on the morning bus ride to school. It’s wonderful to listen to!

[@vincentvargas6224]

THE MUSIC OF THE PHOTOPLAYER IS SO HAPPY, i bet everyone who hears it leaves with a smile on their faces!

[@annecohen8927]

Perfect tempo of what the Ragtime Dance should be! Interesting choice of instrumental arrangements 😁❤️❤️❤️❤️♥️❤️❤️❤️. I think Scott Joplin would be completely mesmerized by this very unique musical arrangement!

[@mumsy7070]

This just added 3 years to my life😊

[@Zyymurgy]

Scott Joplin's ragtimes are some of the most danceable music I've heard on the piano, and this takes it to a whole new level. I think I'm in love. I play a tabletop game where everything from EVERYTHING is in it, so I'm definitely going to play a Bard with a Bag of Holding, with one of these inside.

[@franklinzoop4114]

Me too

[@eopatcjo]

Mine is specifically Steampunk, but I will still live throwing one of these in

[@nathanwerner646]

I love that idea hahaha

[@MsRuthLittle]

a rush of emotion engulfed me as I heard Entry of the Gladiators. I felt as if I was a child again. Thank you Joe

[@KylleinMacKellerann]

As always, a pleasure to listen to this. Meet the grandfather to the Foley system that does a much better job than the modern Foley does. I just hope that Joe avoids the Covid plague we're stuck in right now.

[@Ififitzisitz]

What’s a foley?

[@r0bz0rly]

@@Ififitzisitz sound design

[@ronleunissen]

When I need a smile on my face, this machine always does it for me. Thanks for sharing.

[@anonamouse5917]

I love that old tech.

[@silverpony1]

Fascinating. I thought those old orchestra-in-a-box type machines were all always fully automatic. Now I know!

[@barbaramoran8690]

Some of them were completely automatic,but I guess someone could “tweak” the arrangement .

[@taxman3749]

This thing does a lot more than a simple player piano.

[@ConectoP]

2:16 that slight change in melody is so sweet!

[@haventhebeast6050]

We're blessed to have music

[@DEDEQUIER]

Magnifique !!! Ambiance musicale extra ,merci Joe pour cette video

[@dennisjeffs4239]

Brilliant stuff here, as good as any Dutch Draaiorgel, let's have some more, thanks for playing it!

[@Hairbanger24]

I have listened to several of your fine tunes. Nobody has mentioned that it is just about as much fun looking at you playing with your contraption as listening to the music..

[@jennychyeo3016]

A great integrated musical 'machine' of brilliant creation! The player is equally good, if not better, to 'articulate' the musical piece(s) on it. Excellent.

[@OleGeezerCirca1941]

Your videos constantly astound, amaze, and entertain me as you are the ultimate artiste of this instrument. I wish I could have watched a silent movie and listened to the accompanying music back in the Fotoplayer's heyday.

[@dennisspinkshappyforbusker2523]

The amount of work in making such a sound machine is very desirable, fantastic piece of kit.😘 thanks for sharing sir.

[@royalproductions8704]

it,s the most incredbel machine i ever saw in my life, regtime is my favourite music style, regtime is unic in the world -- i love it. thank you

[@Beobout6]

Great music. I love your additional talent. The guy that built this amazing machine probably went insane and wound up in the same place as did the inventor of the IBM selectric typewriter. Lol. Thank you.

[@stevedavis8482]

Love all of it Joe....

[@playerpianogal]

Love this!! I remember Harvey Roehl playing his many years back!! I want one!! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@thesuperamazingalex810]

I love this ragtime dance.

[@laurencefinston7036]

Thank you for this. Especially for not playing it too fast. There are 36 ragtimes in the Edition Peters edition of Joplin's ragtimes and I believe it is complete. As the preface points out, there isn't a single weak one. Everyone knows "The Entertainer" from "The Sting" and "The Maple Leaf Rag" and a couple of others are at least somewhat familiar, but one hardly ever hears most of them and they are all gems and also a lot of fun to play.

[@Brave_Brevity]

Just had an epiphany, the American Fotoplayer was the first of a dj set. Think about it, like a dj youu play an already playing tune, but you remix and add variations to it by means of sound sfx to different tune and instruments and such.

[@staspastukh2005]

Great job, Joe!

[@beachbum4691]

Brilliant - Just loved it :) Thank for making the effort so the public can see it. :) (Thinks: without the net so very few would even know it existed) :)

[@stuartdickinson5282]

Great seeing you and your instrument amazing!

[@nancymitchell2696]

This is great stuff, Joe. Thank you!

[@miaalbanese8141]

love this.

[@dick12235]

Thanks: A treat for my Brain.

[@RichardLaughlin]

What a delightful machine. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@larryhagemann5548]

Love it. Thank you.

[@olvinyldude]

AHHhhh, Joplin.. Bravo, Sir !

[@footlightnotes]

Brilliant! I love it!!

[@megelizabeth9492]

I love how the Flutes are almost Tibia-like at some points. Very pretty and romantic sound.

[@therealchayd]

I noticed this too, I must say bourdon pipes with tremulant sound very unusual, but not in a bad way!

[@sindobrandnew]

Oh, where have I heard this before....

[@douglasnicholson9213]

Thank you, MAESTRO!

[@Supersup.campos]

It's awesome.

[@SaweetTooth]

This is a dual roller.

[@danilobatterista]

Simply great Man! I'm a musician also. You simply took me to wonderland.

[@esvin8771]

In the sheet music when you stopped the drum there's supposed to be a stomp stomp stomp, Scott Joplin encouraged the player to make a March tempo stomp which you could do awesome with that instrument.

[@dennisjeffs4239]

Joe is so enthusiastic when on the Fotoplayer, hope you've taught someone else how to play it?

[@stephenmills8812]

The silent film composer Robert Israel actually used this exact Fotoplayer in this video for accompaniment of a Charlie Chaplin short called "The Fireman" as well as for some Buster Keaton shorts.

[@johntinning5381]

If I was Joe, I would have just left the piano playing the original song as it was meant to be played, plus then the drum beat etc.. and would have left the organ accompaniment out, sort of spoilt what Scott Joplin achieved? in my mind.

[@raymondmacdougall5430]

their grandchildren must have a party whenever they visit

[@anthonymccarthy4164]

Well that was really something. I love it.

[@zindrato]

Super DJ !!

[@johnderby8921]

Great sound!!! NH

[@isaacstillwell1608]

1:13 I’m in a car right meow and right at this part the traffic light turned red. Perfect timing.

[@larshassing3938]

C'mon Foster.. not funny

[@anonamouse5917]

Cats aren't supposed to drive cars.

[@Classsslady]

amazing, thank you!!

[@dennisspinkshappyforbusker2523]

Very impressive .

[@barbaramoran8690]

Perfect lazy man’s piano .Have any of you seen Sparky ‘s Magic piano .In the boy’s imagination,the piano plays itself .story from 1940’s and cartoon made much later.Who ever invented automated instruments must have hated taking music lessons.The “orchestrion” which was like a player piano. Played several instruments using paper rolls.It was a great invention.Too bad they stoped making them when records took over.

[@spacep0d]

Holy smokes that is cool!

[@ANDREWLEONARDSMITH]

The tibia pipes of the photoplayer are the same as those later used in the theatre organ which is what put the photoplayer out of business.as first there was the solo piano then the photoplayer came along and only lasted a short time then the "Mighty Wurlitzer" came along & the rest is History!

[@sighberscamp1]

Delightful!

[@davidj.demarco2698]

+Kim G yes you certainly aredelightful

[@sighberscamp1]

+David J. DeMarco. Thank you, kind sir!

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

I can't thank glaggleland more enough for introducing me to this

[@pifflesomepuffnadder855]

This deserves more likes! :)

[@whoisthisguy724]

You got the Stop-Time Rag by any chance? I'd like to hear an interpretation of that very unique rag...

[@Pygar2]

"Easy Winners" would be great!

[@historymajor26]

*sits down as if about to play machine* ... *machine plays itself* 😂

[@misterwhitman4368]

Say Joe, It would be quite an interesting episode if You were to explain and demonstrate each of the various controls, buttons and switches of the American Fotoplayer Machine.

[@lc237]

Love that syncopation!

[@prulcan]

they can't build these anymore nowaday... not without computers... there is no modern tech that can't be compared with this masterpiece

[@USMC_BABE38]

Very interesting

[@myearsloveit]

😊👏👏👏

[@Gxhbro]

Permission to borrow this

[@TuffEnuffIII]

How can i find a machine like this?

[@emirhan2646]

2:16 best part

[@organbuilder272]

Damn - That thing need a Peterson ICS-4000 to turn the system on

[@GuruRasaVonWerder]

I COULD PLAY THAT, HAHAHAHA

[@FilipinoFurry]

cool

[@dayofthedaleks1524]

Ok who else sees a black and white silent film in there head when listening to this

[@MisterManTheBestMan]

Call a doctor, you're seeing things.

[@ShalmendoGlineux]

The American Fotoplayer was actually used specifically for orchestration of silent movies! That's why it has unusual gadgets like a phone ringer, a train whistle, and a tweeting bird whistle. A lot of people mistakenly believe these were used in the recording of early Disney cartoons but these were, in fact, used for live performances of silent films that otherwise would not have had any soundtrack at all (except maybe the whirring of the projector). These lovely instruments are in fact a precursor to theatre organs that many people think directly replaced orchestras when theatres didn't want to pay for all the musician, but before that we had a (Sadly brief) period in which these (fotoplayers) were very popular. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Fotoplayer

[@millionseller001]

catchy.

[@fergus247]

How does it play the notes by itself?

[@princessmarlena1359]

*sharpens straight razor and shaves customer, only to accidentally behead him and for his head to roll out the door* (in filagree bordered caption) “Wait, sir! You forgot your hat!” *waves the customers hat around*

[@g4m1ng4life]

Joe could be Matthew ‘Mizkif’ (Twitch streamer) uncle or atleast somewhat related to him if he is from New Jersey right?!?

[@chickenmanedbrown8054]

that's pretty cool I was wondering how many calories do you burn by having this instrument I wish I had one of these when I was younger I used to wait 598 lb and I had gastric bypass surgery I'm down to 178 pounds for if I had one of these I want to have gone for the surgery it's definitely a calorie burner looks like yours truly chicken me and Ed Brown

[@kleenex3000]

I see you have some libitum there. this must be great fun!

[@muzhikforchaplin1203]

I think 1.25x speed is better

[@Jacob-jq2ot]

👍

[@airplane564]

Where could I find one of these?

[@jwcarty]

Haha funny seeing you here

[@airplane564]

+Jack C this is my jam

[@ShalmendoGlineux]

Unfortunately only around 50 survive today, and of those only 12 are actually functional enough to be playable. Finding one would be a major feat, and an even greater feat if you could restore it! These are spectacularly rare gems!

[@theq4602]

Can it play Circus Galop?

[@MarcColten-us2pl]

I am enjoying these videos but I’m confused. I’ve seen pianos and organs where the human player does everything and I’v seen others where the human does nothing. This one seems to be a combination and it looks like one would be useless without the other.

[@TOBI10795]

yep sounds like KK Ragtime,

[@pking4879]

Страшнее любого фильма ужасов

[@dennisspinkshappyforbusker2523]

I wonder if it would play as a normal piano also.

[@Zman_1123]

Disney world at main st USA

[@nayeongm]

ㅋㅋㅋ

[@stevenngooi9929]

I think is cooking mama

[@PerpTheHerp]

How is it powered

[@shiningarmor2838]

Actually, it's electric

[@jonasciliento336]

Really I thought it was mechanically powered

[@juliusxi1666]

My dear

[@megelizabeth9492]

Probably a combination of mechanical and Pneumatic or something like that.

[@prebooomer]

Electric motor driving a bellows arrangement, which gives both vacuum and air pressure to drive the instruments

[@kalagasvkalaga7441]

Я думал мужик на пиёнине будет играть, а он педали крутить,👍

[@faerieSAALE]

Not my favorite tune. I would like to hear the theme song from the movie The Sting - the Entertainer.

[@ivanhajncl8833]

Not my favourite comment. I would like to hear comments that relate to the clip, not to the constrained mind-space of a self-indulgent commentor

[@SeeburgMusic]

Very nice until the end... you stopped the roll before the perforations were finished, causing the last notes to sustain which ruined the ending. The ending of teens and twenties pop tunes are generally supposed to be quite staccato. That's why the perforations are short and there's no sustain used. Otherwise very nice.