It's crazy they were able to harness the dark arts and power a self playing piano with the souls of piano players who died in bar fights. Really amazing history here.
Абсолютно Вы правы. Соседи не знали, что у нас такой инструмент. И я после школы "играл". Благо, перфолент было много. Часами. А вечерами, когда соседи встречали моих родителей, они хвалили меня: "Боже, как играет Ваш сын!". Мама с иронией отвечала: "Да, играет!"А я ходил с видом "великого пианиста". Хотя сам к тому времени мог сыграть гамму в две октавы, не более. You are absolutely right. The neighbors didn't know we had such a tool. And I "played" after school. Fortunately, there were a lot of punched tapes. For hours. And in the evenings, when the neighbors met my parents, they praised me: "God, how your son plays!" Mom replied ironically: "Yes, she's playing!"And I walked around looking like a "great pianist." Although by that time he could play a scale of two octaves, no more.
@@Ih8kone New is kinda a relative word too. My grandmother had one in their house when I was a kid (late 90s) and all you had to do was set up the scroll and press play.
Thanks a lot! I'd like to show it to my daughter, 12 years old now, and I founded here! In a couple of years this kind of information may desapear, if guys like you dont preserve the history! This is very important! And the Pianola is a amazing machine either!
I found it annoying because when they moved villages demolished houses to smaller house and down sized it went i got annoy its important to save these old pieces of equipment id love one today🤔🤔🙄
Remember as a little boy going to my Uncle Joe and Aunty Idas house and playing the pianola,a real adventure! Select the scroll,tighten it up(still remember the squeak ) load it in open the scroll door and then the pedals came out and start pumping.Absoulutley loved it, nothing like every one having a sing along.Every kid should experience this.
We had a pianola very similar in hour house in Porto Alegre, Brazil and I loved, as a kid, to play my favourite musics. Till the day the system of air stopped to function and it was impossible to fix it. Now, that I'm living in Portland, OR and write a weekly blog, I just wrote about that intrument I missed so much. Nelson Menda
@@PiotrBarcz My next door neighbour didn't want it, was actually going to destroy it. I offered my left over grocery money & they agreed. I just got it tuned & they tuner told me it's a Hood brand by Beale 1925 & it's worth over $5000.
Player reed organs like the Aeolian Orchestrelle are even harder as they use more than twice the energy of a piano as in addition to the player itself they also need additional energy to sound the reeds.
I have one and many Rolls ,but I wish I had this one as my mum who's now 76 used to own a pub called the Entertainer and her self was a well known Entertainer for 60 years. amazing instrument.
They have a Pinola at the May Gibbs Nutcote in Sydney, Australia. I was able to have a go not too long ago, and it played this same song! Was pretty cool trying it out!
Back in the early 50s, my dad received a free player piano from one of our neighbors in southwest Detroit. All he had to do was remove it from their dining room to our sunroom. Upon getting it home, he refurbished it. It operated by pumping 2-foot pedals & I remember inscribed inside the door where the rollers were placed said it was built in 1913. We bought the music rolls at Grinnell's. Great times & memories.
Вот такой, только черного цвета был в нашей семье 60-70е годы прошлого века. Только записи были классические. Часами слушал. Here it is, only black was in our family in the 60s and 70s of the last century. Only the recordings were classic. I listened for hours.
Player pianos are so cool! My niece's husband has one, and I even managed to bring one octave back up to snuff, pitch-wise, without having to completely retune it! Although it has been electrified, it still has foot pedals to manually pump the exhaust bellows.
I have a Pianola in my family, I have it on offer to me, but I've not the space for it - hopefully I can figure something out. It needs restoration, but it's complete. Looks not the same but very, very similar to your one. I remember playing it a lot as a kid, probably driving my grandparents nuts in the process 😆
I still wonder how much know-how it required to build such an instrument. Certainly it was not the work of one person alone, but it took a lot of imagination, creativity and... not the last: money! Great you still have and enjoy it. Hopefully it will last for many many many generations!
Моя семья имела такой инструмент в 1960-70 годы. Я на ней "играл" часами.. My family had such a tool in the 1960s and 70s. I "played" on it for hours..
Fantastic. You have to go to thrift shops that sell second hand things to look for pianola scrolls. Crafters have started buying them and then cut them up and use them for crafting which is a shame as they are kind of rare and there's still pianolas in use that could still play them.
@@Averageavgeekyt I know, I think it's sad. I see other things cut up too like really old books which makes me gasp. 😂 I suppose it's a way of upcycling. Maybe these things would just get trashed otherwise, I don't know.
Hello! I am making a video that explains a concept called Tool-Assisted speedrunning. In short, since it is a sequence of inputs being played back, I compare it to a player piano, or pianola. I would like to use a short clip of your video to illustrate the piano and the roll of paper with notes punched in it. I display the source of the clips I use in the corner of the video for clips like that. Are you ok with me using it?
It's in pretty damn good condition cosidering the speed of your pedaling! I have a pump in my piano and a pedal unit but I use the pump, the sound is better.
Los pedales mueven el mecanismo como en las maquinas de coser y como en las maquinas de escribir o como las camaras fotograficas maneja un rollo o papel es parecido pero no igual porque ya esta en el rollo es tan genial
I recently bought a "restored" Schulz pianola but it's a bit of a work out and not easy to get the pedalling rhythm right. Yours looks a lot easier. You mentioned that it's not as easy as it looks but I'm wondering whether it just takes practice or I've bought a dud!
Jane Cafarella It takes practice, I've been playing this for about 30 years! You kind of feel where the pedals provide a pumping action into the bellows so you don't always need to press them all the way down or let them come all the way back up again.
It's vacuum operated I believe. His foot pedaling makes the vacuum to run the machine and the holes allow a mechanism to actuate which strikes the strings and plays the notes. I'm not exactly sure what the mechanism is that lies between the holes in the paper and the hammers which hit the strings, but I imagine it must be similar to a pneumatic cylinder.
+BoBu The prices range iv seen them go for a few hundred but next weekend i'am picking one up for free. I don't think they make them anymore but they are relatively easy to come by. And yes you can you it as a normal piano as well.
Joshua Gabriel-Black Ah good. Now say I would buy one for 750 or something how much would it cost for restoring it, like new strings and hammers or to tune and voice them. Also where would I find one?
