QRS #1354 player piano roll from 1920's. For those who are wondering: This particular rendition is a player piano piece and it is NOT meant to be played by human hands!
la hizo popular glenn miller en los y tuvo un enacimiento a fines de los 80. una parte de esta pieza se usaba el las viejas peliculas del oeste, sobretodo las de caballeria (militares)
Oh my god. I haven’t thought about this song in years!! When I was a kid there was a giant animatronic shoe that played this song at the shoe store my grandparents took me to
Perhaps a stupid question, but looking at all of these piano rolls on RU-vid, over and over again people make comments about how they can't be played. So the possibly-stupid question is this: why *should* an arrangement created specifically for a player piano be playable by hand?
CHUCK SCHAFER THANK YOU! sheesh, BARNEY? People have forgotten Yankee Doodle already? Even Ulysses S Grant said he knew two songs. One was Yankee Doodle and the other one wasn't. ;-)
Joseph Womer They are not notes in the song. They are the piano roll's signal to the player piano to reverse and rewind the roll. There was no electricity involved when these were invented. Everything was mechanical. You only had the vacuum caused by pumping the pedals. The air allowed through a hole would lift the hammer at the back end of the key and strike the string. The wider holes in the piano roll are where it makes the hammer strike harder, making that note louder. The length of the hole determines how long the note is sustained. A really ingenious invention. When electricity was later available, it was able to run a motor instead of pumping pedals to create the vacuum and the human race got a little lazier and a little fatter after that. This electronic representation of the piano roll is authentic. And yes, no one played piano that good. Since the roll could be created on a machine, it was no problem adding a couple more hands to play a song. However, the notes were created by a human. Some player pianos even had percussion instruments inside of them like drums, cymbals and tamborines.
