"Tip-Toe Thru The Tulips With Me" On A 1915 Fuehr & Stemmer Player Piano

[@greekpanther1]

imagine it started playing at night and you went to check it and the roll wasnt inside.

[@yuridanylko]

Living Universe But the song is so happy xD

[@greenmarcosu]

Makes me think of Insidious

[@PAULLONDEN]

Which off-course could happen to any regular piano also............🖐🏻👻

[@DeaconPolen]

If I saw it playing by itself I would compliment the ghost playing it.

[@OldEngine_25]

Rest in peace tiny tim😢😢

[@8avexp]

I immediately thought of Tiny Tim. That was his signature song when he appeared on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in.

[@Established83]

This is beautiful!

[@lemonduckz]

This would be cool in a haunted house lmao

[@PiotrBarcz]

You would just have to close the controls near the keys, the pedals, and the roll compartment and have the vacuum box in the basement where you couldn't hear it.

[@craig9843]

It would be cool in my house!!!

[@danangsyah1072]

Awesome,,

[@waynecopple385]

I can't explain why I find this so fascinating, but I do. It's like a ghost is playing the piano

[@helengvozdovskaya5385]

That's great! I don't quite understand how it works. Do you make the rolls yourself so the piano can play a lot of melodies or only one melody is possible?

[@matthewb5364]

They're made by a couple companies (some are still making rolls!) And can be installed and removed (after being rewound) so you can have a library of rolls! Technically it's a digital medium (1 is a hole for the pneumatic system, 0 is the paper).

[@oscarhartley8998]

sounds great! :D

[@miina7776]

Omg, it's like a past artefact has been bought to life! with a ghost playing it! lol like how old even is this piano? So spooky but beautifully played! Just wondering out of great curiosity and intrigue, how this piano actually works?

[@PiotrBarcz]

The whole player system is operated under suction supplied, in this piano, by a vacuum motor. The roll opens holes in the tracker bar that are tubed to pouches which open valves that contract striking bellows with push fingers on the ends.

[@G6JPG]

According to the clip title, 1915.

[@davef.2329]

Imagine that as the family after-supper entertainment in the parlor of some robber-barron's pre-WWII Chicago mansion... Brandy snifters... cigars...

[@Veso266]

How were u supposed to sign to this one I cannot read that fast, the text just goes past me

[@crisostomokenji]

nice

[@meb3153]

Thanks!

[@JxT1957]

'a piano in the house'

[@merimar3]

Never saw your comment! The Twilight Zone (original series) is my favorite show!

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@merimar3 I love that show too!!! I watched a bunch of episodes already, it's so genius!

[@brotatoes2234]

Please somehow put this in Disney’s Haunted Mansion

[@johncarcher]

How do you turn this piano on because I don't see any switches anywhere that could be the "on" Button?

[@merimar3]

There is a small switch underneath the keys you can't see in the video. This player originally could only be played manually by pumping the treadles with your feet. It has been retrofitted with a modern electric pump motor to run without pedaling. However you can pedal it manually too.

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@merimar3 Well, not anymore really, unless you fixed the leaking in the stack and pumps?

[@WeegeeFan1Studios]

@@PiotrBarcz heyyyy i know youuuuuuuu

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@WeegeeFan1Studios Uh oh, I'm being stalked xD

[@claudiopolis]

First synthesia ever

[@pjdteam3566]

If your here from Pink Panther this is the song Cheif inspector Derfuss plays on the organ before he fades away

[@xFranzinox]

Sheet?

[@merimar3]

Google it. Translating a piano roll to sheet music is not a quick task.

[@xFranzinox]

I imagine, but it was just a question, I enjoyed very much and was just excited with the possibility to learn. Didn't mean to devalue or anything. :/

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@merimar3 I can do it but inly if the roll was scanned with really even tempo and if the roll itself was recorded with even tempo.

[@fuadrage4454]

Yours ?

[@merimar3]

+Fuad Rage yes!

[@candacenelson3894]

Nate Montgomery excuse me can you also use your fingers to play this when this sheet is not making it play by itself. Like can you also play manually

[@merimar3]

Yes. Any player piano can be played as a regular piano. It is only when you are pumping the pedals (or letting an electric motor run the piano) that the keys have resistance. So really, player pianos serve a dual purpose. Piano that plays itself and regular piano that can be played by you!

[@candacenelson3894]

Nate Montgomery oh thank you so much

[@PiotrBarcz]

@@merimar3 The keys don't have resistance even when the system is running

[@Jonas88Stankovich]

I will always be afraid of this song after watching Insidious.

[@jakeelperro3876]

Muy terrorífico incluso de día 😕

[@piggyman-st8iu]

Porque es terrorifico para ti?

[@jakeelperro3876]

@@piggyman-st8iu no lo se, se me hace tétrico que suene sólo sin que nadie lo manipule

[@piggyman-st8iu]

JAKE EL PERRO Jajajaja, lo se. Y fijate que es tecnologia de hace mas de 100 años. Personalmente, yo adoraría tener uno de estos en mi casa porque me salva el tener que aprender piano jeje

[@kidnamedfinger772]

Lo único que falta es Tiny Tim

[@Gemmyanimatoniclover]

Nick Lucas you mean?

[@Irishmahn87]

Who was brought here by “Insidious”?

[@LaRoche_]

Insidious ... 😄

[@merimar3]

MKN 96 yup! Great movie, but sure made this happy song sound creepy. Hear it on my latest player piano! kzbin.info/www/bejne/baKknGt4hc6Nr5o

[@ericksolano9502]

WTF 😨😨😨😨😨

[@leifvejby8023]

First time you hear the invisible man playing? ;-)

[@qlown.]

おろろ

[@isopath1]

Upright Grand!!!😂😂😂😂😂typical American bulldust

[@PiotrBarcz]

Hahhahaa, yup, that was applied to pianos because it lured more people in who were thinking "Wow! This upright mist be special if it has 'GRAND' written on it!"

[@greekpanther1]

imagine it started playing at night and you went to check it and the roll wasnt inside.

[@organbuilder272]

Sure - It would not be surprising. Pianos were made to make music, entertain. This stood in someone's living room and came to life at the Saturday night party. People sand and danced while the player made the piano sing. It didn't forget those nights when friends and neighbors got together to have a good time, drank some beer, ate the snack prepared by the hostess. Then it was left alone, silent, uncared for. And one night - there was magic. Yes, there was no roll. That old piano was reliving memories of a time gone by. An Era of love and kindness, friendships and fun. Yes, there was no roll.

[@kaizzenite]

@@organbuilder272 Such a positive outlook! I like it.

[@kaelandin]

Possessed by tiny tim