Not a very common roll! Its awesome to see this. C. Ridge really added a lot to this old Burl Ives song! Love the boogie woogie effect midway through it.
Thank you so much! Yes, genuine ivory. Most original but some replacements. I still need to get a wafer for the B. Just curious, by temperament do you mean the emotional temperament or the tuning of the piano?
Good job again Rowan - and good song! Your description pretty much sums up what I think about nearly every time I play one of the old rolls in my collection... It's inevitable that the day is coming the old paper in the old piano rolls simply won't tolerate being played any more, and I know I'll dearly miss some being able to play some of the rolls in my collection if that day should come in my lifetime. That's a lot of the reason I started recording a lot of mine as well, so that no matter what I'd still be able to enjoy hearing them on my piano, even if it became not feasible to play one "live" any more. Keep up the good work!
This is absolutely wonderful! I read your description and i hope others will too. You've preserved something so relevant in today's world.... a Heartache now visible in a song. Although that old roll you watched is gone... the song now lives again! Thank you
Thank you so much! I'm glad you read the description, probably only about 10-20% of people do. Our friend @peternewseterforever once tried a trick in his description, "comment X if you read the description" and I was the only person who did that...most people just click and watch, or even just watch 30 seconds and then click another video...I don't blame them, but societally our attention spans have become very low. I'm guilty of it too sometimes. Anyway I digress...haha!
@rowanbelt3612 In a world where so many things have become an abbreviation or an acronym, I still like to read..... and some books are still good "when once you have read it"
@@peternewseterforever I'm sorry to hear that my friend. Music can be therapeutic for some people by helping them to voice their emotions...for me it is different, it's more of a refuge from my other emotions, except when I compose music.
@@rowanbelt3612 You're 10^300 times correct, my friend. That's the reason I compose music. Take my scenario musical "La fin est ici, il a le cafard", meaning "The end is here, 'tis depressed", for example.
I thought I'd jump in here. Sadly.... I think all of us can relate to this song at some point in life. From the ashes grows the roses: Musicians turn to their music when their hearts are broken and they give the world beautiful and endearing songs that we can and do relate to. Taylor Swift wouldn't have quite the repertoire she has without songs about former relationships lol
@@peternewseterforever Well, I hope you are not really feeling as depressed as your composition...and if you were, I hope things are getting better for you. I send my best wishes!
@@SevenPlus65 You know what's funny, Taylor Swift came to my mind too before you said that! I have a friend who's a girl, 19, and she said that she found TS's music to be very helpful in processing emotions. I might not get it, but it doesn't matter if it works for somebody else.
This is such a technically difficult piece. It would take a lifetime to be this good. The precision in the left hand jumping such a wide range and the 4 or five finger block chords in the right. Lee sims in one of the greatest pianists along with Willie the lion Smith, fats waller and others. What makes lee sims truly great is his haunting somewhat dreamy melancholy chord progressions and harmonisation in the right hand whilst maintaining a pumping swing stride in the left whilst adding to the harmonisation in the right at the same time. His arpeggios are fast and complex. Lee sims interpretations of the music of the time were always extremely popular, particularly with piano rolls.
@@rowanbelt3612 I agree with you, but the problem is playing them. In my latest piece (#81), the coda includes tenths, but I added arpeggios to make them (seldom) playable.
It's quite nice, especially the chorus. What a sweet, honest and true man, love in the air and the insanity put aside. Also, on a side note, why are they placed as dots instead of lines? (I'm not judging anything, just curious and confused)
It's a really pretty waltz. I think it was very popular as I see different versions of it often. The dots are just a difference in how it was manufactured. Those dots are punched into the paper roll. Having a little bit of paper remaining between the dots makes the paper stronger - less likely to distort or rip. However, it reduces some of the rhythmic subtlety that is possible. Some other manufacturers punched the dots overlapping so that it turned into one continuous line as you have seen.
Trust me man, nobody is going to strike your video or your channel for a 1920s piano roll with period lyrics xD In fact, I can almost guarantee nobody would catch on without you saying it.
The music is quite nice. The ending chorus was quite off, though 🤔 (reading description) Ah, that's why. Totally normal, it happens. Sometimes I think of trying to continue my pieces with a better ending, but I end up rushing and add a basic ending, like I did with most of my recent pieces. 😂🤣 Quite a dissonant chord. E, F, G, and B-flat (don't know the name of such a chord) sounds shockingly good for an ending.
Thank you for commenting! Please, do not apologize for not commenting sometimes! I am delighted whenever you do comment and I don't assume you will. I haven't commented on your most recent video I think. I still need to listen to it. Sorry about that. That last chord is G B D# F I believe. It's called G+7, Gaug7 or G7#5 because it's built on the G augmented chord. I always like when there is a strange chord at the end haha!
Sims is the American Bach. His inventiveness and diligence are unmatched. I hope that his works will one day receive the same recognition in the musical canon. Thank you for uploading and greetings from Germany.
Thank you for your comment. While I must admit that I stop short of a comparison with such a great composer as Bach, I am a staunch advocate of Lee Sims' music and I believe he is one of the most brilliant, if not the single most brilliant, of the arrangers in the 1920s. Many people still know George Gershwin, far fewer know Sims, and I hope to help remedy that situation. Thank you again!
@@peternewseterforever Thank you! Yes, I like all the different variations and transitions. If I transcribed this into a sheet music version, I would definitely simplify some of those chords where needed :) Btw - I do intend to do that at some point!
I appreciate your description of this song... migrating from a nursery tune into something rhythmically funky! I believe that roll ended up exactly where it was meant to be!
Me too!! It's weird how janky the playback is...I didn't think it was possible for a computer to play unsteadily but what do you know...haha...Glad you found this old video! I was a little disappointed it didn't get more views, just because it is a great roll as you said.
@@rowanbelt3612 The playback is typical of MuseScore 4, it controls dynamics using midi velocity but also totally BUTCHERS the sound by also controlling dynamics with VOLUME ON TOP OF VELOCITY. I've wanted to throttle their necks for it since I realized what the hell was going on, you have no idea how I've raged over this idiotic problem.
@@PiotrBarcz Well, I was referring to an issue on top of that with the rhythm being unsteady 😂 oh well...open source software...the product visually looks good.
@@rowanbelt3612 The rhythm sounds fine, I think that could be corrected with swing. If you render the audio directly then it goes straight from the midi.
@@PiotrBarcz0:36 measure 22 the note marked mp is too long, it feels like it lurches into the next note...this is only one example I could easily pinpoint, it's constantly doing stuff like that where it sounds like it's speeding up and slowing down minutely.
@@peternewseterforever Thank you, so glad you like it! Do you have a timestamp so I can see what you're referring to? I didn't notice anything odd with the paper.
🎶 There are smiles that make us happy 🎶 😄 There are also piano rolls that make us happy! Thanks for posting this total and complete classic. I'll be humming it all morning.
What? Enjoying a marimba waltz?? I think someone hacked your account, this isn't the guy I know... 😉 It's "Willis Richfield"...sorry I was super lazy and didn't write a video description. I actually had suspected it might be another Sheppard pseudonym, but I really don't know as much as you about his style... I'm curious now, what specifically makes you say it doesn't sound like him?
I just saw this comment! Unfortunately it's not my piano, but that of a friend...I'm just glad to have someone who was so kind to let me use it and post these videos! One day...
This is a great advancement: the lyrics are very clear, and they make for such an emotional song. I'm happy this man is happy with Louise, but he's so happy with her that he hears her name quite literally EVERYWHERE 😂 _What an innocent guy..._
Just imagine if you had this many versions of that really good song, Put Away A Little Golden Ray Of Sunshine!!? 😁 Now I have to go back and listen to all of them again to decide which one I like the best.
@@peternewseterforever Haha, that's the fun of these piano rolls! The same song was arranged differently by many different arrangers...it's fun to compare.
@@rowanbelt3612 I know, I'm just saying so the mistakes don't spread. (and trust me, if you treat ragtime seriously, the last thing you want to see if everyone calling everything with a march left hand ragtime)