You're by far the best site for listening to these old tunes. Your piano is in tune and perfect working order and your recording system reproduces the sounds crystal clear! This and Judy Garland's are my favorite versions of this tune. Thank you so much for posting this!
Well, thank you Edward..that is quite a compliment. Having gotten a little reprieve in the health department as of late, I should be posting some more now in the coming days again. Appreciate the view !
Thank You Dennis. The piano, just having moved and is now residing in an early 1920's home with reinforced but original construction seems to be playing better than ever. Could it be there are kindred spirits within the wood ? Once I get it tuned properly, I will issue more rolls. Thanks for your comments, I am glad this old Aeolian is still pleasing folks as it has pleased me over the years.
This great song by Kern and Hammerstein was on a Duo-Art Roll played by Moran and Milne, and on a Welte Roll played by Vee Lawnhurst and Howard Lutter. Both those rolls are just about as good an arrangement as I could ever hope for, and this Sims arrangement (which I never heard before) certainly equals them. Thanks for putting it on.
Thank you for this info! I have a QRS version (Victor Arden) and the Duo~Art (713194) version & about to sell one of them, thinking to keep the Arden version that I love. Have you heard the QRS version? I'm about to upload videos of both, but on my 1970's player so no coding dynamics on the Duo..I wonder how much better it will sound on the proper player!
This is how a 1920's foot pumped player piano SHOULD sound! Most people today only see 95 year old players that are horrendously out of tune and only working by way of "aftermarket" miniature electric vacuum cleaner suction units in them. Loud and obnoxious! These pianos were intended to make "real music" with feeling not just "noise".
@@Pianosyncrazy All true! So great. I love the gutsy tone of mid 1920's Aeolian upright player and reproducing pianos. Is your Stroud strictly a foot impelled Duo Art or is it factory pedal/electric?
While the going price in 1923 was around $600.00 for this model there were many more a little cheaper and some more expensive. That might have been a fortune to some in those days, but a piano was then billed as a 'must have expense' for the culture maybe such as a color TV set was in the 1950's and 60's Re: 'Left hand' : Most player pianos provided a way to operate the pedals remotely with ones hands as the foot pedals were inaccessible. In addition the foot pumped player offered additional volume expression controls which adjusted the amount of vacuum sent to the player stack. This piano offered two such controls... one for notes normally played with the left hand and one for those normally played with the right. Thanks very much for the view and the comments !
