The Can Can played on a Hooghuys Organ built in 1914. B A C K R O U N D M U S I C: Music by: David Cutter Music (Honey) - www.davidcuttermusic.co.uk Floppy Circus - Lost Souls Club
@@apotato6278 By the time of the mid-20th century, the automatic record changer had been widely adopted. This allowed a stack of many records to be played in sequence, and was possibly the first instance of a "playlist" in the modern sense. You could make a literal list of of the order in which you stacked your records, and then anyone else who had the same discs in their collection could refer to your "list" and "play" them in that sequence. Sidenote: the term 'album' comes from the fact that before the adoption of long-playing records, the only way to release more than a few songs in one package was to sell a set of singles in a book-like case. This case resembled a photo album, so they called it a music album. And the name stuck...
@@bloodyscalp94 glad you clarified that. I seriously thought they built this (probably) billion dollar instrument JUST for the Can-Can. Yep, I was totally convinced. 🙄
That's because the sounds you are hearing are raw, authentic sounds. They aren't computer-generated crap shoots that gain millions of followers for two minutes, just to be followed up with "wait, why was that song popular?" Modern "music," (if you can call it that) for the most part, sucks. To put it the way most of my family sees it: "if you need computer software to make music, you aren't a musician: you're a programmer with an ear for pitch."
Strip away autotune from all of these "pop" icons and see how many of them would've succeeded without that "omgsickbro" autotuneeeeee: - Rhianna - Beyoncé - Lady Gaga (she's actually not bad without that added crap, go look up any video of her just playing a piano and singing nonchalantly with it) - Ke$ha (that dollar sign still makes me 😡 ugh) - any other "pop queen" of the 21st century What's the difference between a pop star in the 70s and a pop star in the 2010s? People still talk about the ones from the 70s.
@@Allen1350 this is a computer in a way, processing the input you set in before. see 2.20 you can like both edm and classical music, stop gatekeeping music and telling people their genre sucks...
Technically it's a mechanical version of a .midi player. Each instrument has its own values in the "programming" and the "file" being played is the punch card being fed into it. IBM started with similar tech, but for textile production.
But all the instruments are powered by an extensive set of mechanical bellows which pressurize air and release it corresponding to the sheet roll. It's an upscale player piano
This almost sounds like music before its time. This machine was built to provide musical entertainment for the masses, and this song makes full use of its capabilities and the variety of melodic and percussion instruments built into it. It's music designed to put energy in people and make them dance. And it's almost uncanny how much it resembles music made today for the same purpose. I mean there's a freaking 4/4 kick drum going, and there's a hi-hat or something like it accompanying the kick drum. Listen to the part from 1:30 on, the way the beat drops in and out as it builds to a break and then goes into a steady beat... the parallels with techno and even gabber are actually startling. The more things change...
Keeping this baby in tune must be a NIGHTMARE. I seriously appreciate the delicateness of the sound here, as most renditions of the song play it far too harshly, especially in the opening few measures. Thank you for sharing! :)
I think you got it wrong. tuning is fixed with the fixed pipes and xylaphone pieces etc. I was thinking it is really a fairly simple machine to maintain, being so heavily built and simple-mechanical. I am guessing these are far far more simple hardy machines than complex pipe organs in cathedrals and concert halls, easily 1/10th the amount of stuff to deal with, and all in one box instead of spread out over a building with several floors, rooms, compartments.
Everyone is talking about the song but I like the design of the orgon I love the pastel colors on porsolon looking material and the lights are such a nice touch like damm
Beauty and utility. Mind blowing music from something so old. I thank all the people in lovingly restoring and looking after these amazing instuments so we can enjoy them. Here's a gift to pass on to the yet unborn enthusiasts. God blessxxxc
That was absolutely stunning to listen to! There would be something unique and sinister to hear one of these play Prokofiev's Dance of the Knights (the Apprentice tune by the way). Awesome nonethless
Imagine how a mechanic marvel like this made a big impact in music in it's time of creation. Just look, the dolls move, it plays great even now, it even has lighting. Too cool.
What a wonderful old machine! I'm thrilled to hear the music. There used to be a smaller version of this machine on a merry-go-round in Rye, New York's Playland.
I've worked on a few of the restorations of the organs at that place - this one to me has the best range of instruments inside it. So many cool ways to combine the voices to get unique sounds, and Alexey is good at that in his arrangements!
You see all these machines playing more modern/anachronistic music, but it's very interesting to hear the sort of thing that it WOULD have played at the time it was built.
I do hope that laypeople don`t think that it is a wonder that something so old is still playable. They can`t be blamed though, for thinking that in all that time it will not have had any major work done several times, to keep it in usable condition. To maintain an instrument in that condition demands a lot of commitment, a measure of affection and shedloads of money. All credit to the owners that it had had over its lifetime.
The Hooghuys Organ shows how much man has regressed in making mechanical wonders. These machines were made with such precision BEFORE the age of the computer...
Lucky The Wolf Thanks for telling me this was made BEFORE computers were invented. I wouldn't have known by the title which states that it was made 100 years ago.
@@Adamsnadler214 Humans were the original computers. In that sense, computers were never really invented at all, just improved forms were created. On that note, "modern" computing oddly enough could have started with this technology in the early 1900's (air pumps and mechanical valves) - all the pieces needed were developed, but for whatever reason nobody with the means and know-how actually did it with this tech. I wouldn't be surprised if someday we see a "small" (in function) computer created this way just as a proof of concept. It could even run program code from a paper roll or cardboard book, though there would be interesting limitations running code from that type of media, and RAM would be very very expensive per bit. If one allowed cheating by using modern ROM/RAM, the CPU itself wouldn't be as terrible to create out of pneumatic technology. It would be large and slow compared to electronic computers but it wouldn't have the scaling problems that gear based computers did (as you add more mechanical gearing, it gets more complicated to fit it all together). With this stuff you could make a CPU of fairly arbitrary complexity if you could afford to build it - the problems don't get more complicated as it gets bigger. It just gets bigger.