A Tour of a FREE Craigslist Piano! 

It's been awhile since the last "real" piano has been reviewed. Hope to see more.

Why did he think it sounded bad? That maple leaf rag was the most majestic glorious thing I’ve ever heard in my life!

I like your smile while playing the ragtime !!

It's nice to see a reproducer player piano from England that hasn't been gutted for once. Another excellent video!

That is a gorgeous cabinet. Tennessee looks breathtaking too. Great video. Thanks!

Beautiful drive to the very cool player piano. I bet once it’s tuned it will be fun to listen to. Thank you for the road trip 😎

I troll the "free" section on Craigslist regularly. I have seen boats, as well as pristine grand pianos. Some people can't afford to move them and a loved one may have passed. They don't have use for it anymore and are extremely generous. I've seen baby grands and many organs as well. Pump reed organs that are both in disrepair and working. Antiques that are very fine indeed. Thanks for bringing this information in this video to the piano loving masses.

Fascinating thanks. I think I found your channel by looking for videos on mallet percussion and this is great.

Very interesting review. Enjoyed learning a lot about that piano.

I'd take that piano home in a heartbeat lol I just need to make sure I never divulge my first girlfriend's name to my wife...

Great video, James! Very interesting piano and a wonderful piece to own. It’s sad that the mechanical players aren’t as popular as they once were. Thanks for a great video!

Beautiful Tennessee landscape! Please more 🤪 Greetings from Germany

Whoever obtained that was so lucky.

Oh boy, it’s really a long time ago that you reviewed a upright and now this one. Nice! A beauty. And with a bunch of rolls. I can absolutely understand that you didn’t want to tune all of them. Surely not this oldie. And you never know if one string breaks. Ouch. But regardless of that thank you for playing this beautiful instrument. Imagine someone is given this away. Must be to a piano lover. Anyway. Hope you can do this more often. Thank you for sharing and playing!

Wow what a gift this would be. I’ve always wanted a piano. Maybe one day.

"Pneumatic" was the word; you were looking for.

The angled bench reminds me of the type you'd find in a pedal pumped reed organ, so that may be original as well :-)

Oh man I LOVED the out of tune playing! xD Sounds like you ran a performance on a nicely tuned piano thru a lot of expensive effects! xD

We need to go cheaper

Actually, player pianos, like many mechanical musical instruments, do not work on pressure, but on vacuum. In fact, the pedals are mechanically connected to bellows, and the proper term for those bellows is 'exhausters.' Some mechanical musical instruments, like the band organs associated with carousels have a vacuum system for controlling the instrument and a pressure system to activate the organ pipes.

Indeed A Cool player piano James 👋😀👍✌

Time lapse travel is great. 👍🏼🤠 Air control would be pneumatic. Fluid (liquid) control would be hydraulic.

My Boss I just discovered the YAMAHA DGX 660 older brother has been released. DGX 670. CAN'T wait to see your video on it😀

Hi, James! Have you tested Brazilian pianos? Essenfelder and Fritz Dobbert are the main manufacturers. Unfortunately Essenfelder manufactured the pianos in southern Brazil, but closed around the 1960s', and the new Essenfelder that reactivated production some five years ago now manufactures in China ... :( Fritz Dobbert is Brazilian and manufactures in São Paulo, Brazil.

Enjoyed the Go Pro "time lapse". It was fun. Nice case on that piano. WOW! That's really out of tune! I can imagine though that the tone would be very nice once properly tuned. The action is probably in need of TLC and the hammers as well. That piano would be a greet project for a restorer to take on. The cabinet looks very good. I do hope that it finds a good home and will receive the TLC that it is deserving of. It would be a shame for this instrument to be lost.

I love your channel, especially this episode!!!! I just wish I had time to watch every episode. I would also love to see more videos on home organs. I've picked up classical organ in the last year and want one to practice at home not just at church (a really nice Rodgers 535 ) but I cant afford much. I've found some free ones but I realize I have to find or inherit the right one,. I'm just clueless about organ companies. Allen sounds like the best. I tried out a free "Conn" vacuum tube kind but it literally died on me while I was looking at it. Plus it didn't have a full 32 note pedal board. I'm looking for organs that fit American Guild of Organists standards. Also there is a really nice YT series put out by AGO for pianists transitioning to organ. It's about 30 lessons, enough to get started. I love piano but I LOVE organ!

Hi James. Another great video! Not wishing to come across as a "know-all", for your future reference, "hydraulic" refers to fluid systems. "Pneumatic" refers to compressed air systems. 😁

I have just discovered your videos a few days ago and have watched nearly all of them. Any chance of doing comparison between a Yamaha C5/6/7 in the future? Keep up the good work.

Love that case, sort of an economy art nouveau look with those curved panels. I wonder, if one of the influences behind ragtime was a way of compensating for poorly tuned pianos in saloons and juke joints? Thanks for showing us what was in the cabinet. It matched so well I was wondering what it was. Too bad you couldn't have played "Elmer's Tune" I always think of it as a Glenn Millar song, and wonder if it is the same?

Very good 👍 review james

This is one of the prettiest upright I've ever seen.

For sure that piano is better than what a big percentage of viewers have at home!. I hope it gets a good and loving home

This video was so worth it just to hear that piece played so out of tune! Fricken hilarious. Typically when I hear a piano that is out of tune, I can't even tell, because it's uniformly out of tune and the notes still sound in tune with each other. But this! This was just crazy to hear.

Thanks, cool video!!!

great video , hey do you think you can do a review of the model i have which is the KORG cdp300? i use it on my gigs, i wanted to know how you felt about it

Great video! Can you please review the Roland JUNO-DS88? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Is there a shelf to hold music? Are the keys ivory and yes I'm very interested.

hydraulic: Of, involving, moved by, or operated by a fluid, especially water under pressure. pneumatic: Run by or using compressed air. So, I suspect the player piano you reviewed is not hydraulic. :-) Thanks, as always, for an interesting review! *Question:* How long do you think a piano like that would stay in tune after every string has been twice tuned?

How did I miss this video? :-O I would snatch any playable pianos for less than 1000 euros. If I found a free piano I would take if home faster than I could say pianola.

Great video as always! Also really enjoyed your roland fp30x video. I think ill choose the yamaha p125. How do you think these 2 compare? And a different question: do you think its necessary to be able to read sheets or can you get as good in playing by just using your ears and feelings? Lets make clear that i had no problem learning guitar by ear, was really fun! Just hate sheets

Could you do the Korg D1 next?

Ooh I loved the countryside! Quick question - is the action of acoustic pianos generally much more heavy than digital? I have a Yamaha digital that feels quite light and similar to a keyboard really, which is good for me because I have arthritis. The out of tune piano sounded so strange!!😀

Interesting on two particular counts. My first ever piano bought second hand in 1946 was an Allison and Allison. Hearing you say this brought back the name even though I had forgotten it. It was not fantastic but did the job basically for quite a few years. Also I noted some years ago that if you want a well-made instrument a player piano seems to need a higher standard of construction because of the mechanical stress on it. Nowadays I just have digital pianos (with much improved action on those days) at home, primarily liking my Kawai ES110 for its realistic action and lightness to transport, but am fortunate to occasionally be booked for good installed grand pianos.

Nice video Very interesting piano All tho I was not able to see the internal/external parts of the piano It was really nice to hear you talking about the piano and explaining what it looks like especially the player mechanism Great work🎹🎶

I probably should know this... but what is the difference between a square and an upright piano? And that is absolutely amazing. The minute you said player piano... I knew it was going to be good. Last one of those I played on, unfortunately I was never able to determine anything about it; I was frankly too young to care anything about the history of the instruments I played then. Was only in elementary school.

James----A couple of points for your education. A player piano does not operate with 'hydraulics' or 'air pressure'. The mechanism is operated using Vacuum. The bellows do not have 'cloth' but leather, same as a pipe organ regulator. This comes to you from a 70 year old piano/theater pipe organ player and tuner.

Built in 1923!!

I have a hallet and davis upright piano in rough shape I believe it's from 1908 manufacturer number is 63329 should I keep it or throw it away? I would like to have it restored but I don't know if it's worth anything Anyone with knowledge let me know

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Air = pneumatic, oil = hydraulic. Not electronic = mechanical(acoustic.) End of Engineering lesson. That one really takes the prize for the most atrociously out of tune piano I've heard. Out here on the great plains, there's always about a half dozen free or under $100 uprights that people are trying to get rid of. Most are not players. Too bad I have no place to put one.

Love how the ragtime sounded out of tune.

"Pneumatic"....not "hydraulic." But hey...who cares! We get the idea ;) Great vid....

Will you be having this piano? 🤔

5:49 the word you're looking for is "pneumatic", not hydraulic. Pneumatic = air power. Hydraulic = water or oil power A hydraulic piano would be pretty messy, LOL

If it's air operated it would be pneumatic rather than hydraulic.

A lot of people just want the thing out of the house. I've seen so many piano's for $100 or less

i love out of tune piano sounds but i would say that is a bit too out of tune

Its an art deco piano hahaha,

Pneumatics.

I am going to take this piano with me come to daddy