Somehow, I felt inexplicably surprised that he managed to get through that entire piece without being forced to hide inside the piano to avoid a comedically-escalating saloon-fight.
_[ fight abruptly stops ] [ a few beats of silence ]_ *"'EY! PIANNY MAN!* Git outta there and keep playin!" _[ pianist slowly peeks out of piano, sees everyone in the saloon glaring at him, some reaching for sidearms ]_ _[ Maple Leaf Rag resumes ] [ saloon brawl resumes, explosively ]_
You know it’s a complex piece when Vinheteiro doesn’t play it while staring into your sole I’m glad Scott Joplin is being more and more recognized as one of the greats he truly is
Scott Joplin’s music was among my favorite to learn as a pianist. I liked this cause I closed my eyes & imagined being in a tiny old school club hearing someone play that good ragtime 🥰
As much as I "dig" Janis, Scott is the Joplin I REALLY dig! It was awesome to hear this on a period correct instrument! - Any imperfections in it (from well played use, not damage) likely is as close as one can get to the ACTUAL sound of this tune as heard in the early 20th Century!
Apropos. Joplin's music just transports us to another time and place. Nice on that old piano! He and Sousa were certainly two defining influences of that age. The ragtime king and the march king.
Every art form, once got in hands of Americans, turns shit. The snooker becomes pool, sculpture becomes golden toilet, piano masterpiece is rug/rag. It's sad.
@@seanleith5312 Depends of course on how you look at it, but there is a kernel of truth to what you say. However, no matter what country you are from, there is always music that will define certain periods of time. And of course, one persons trash can be another persons treasure. People are just people and time doesn't change that very much at all.
But is so sad that there were so many composers, and in the end, two decades of music is distilled into... Sousa and Joplin. At least we remember Mozart's contemporaries.
My dad played the accordion and my mother the piano. My dad would come home from work and chop out the Maple Leaf Rag on my mothers piano and he got to where he could play it very well over time. Fond memories. He is gone now, but this helped me remember.
MY GREAT GRAND UNCLE PLAYED MANY INSTRUMENTS FROM BANJO TO ACCORDEON. HE TOO WOULD COME TO HIS SISTER'S HOUSE AND PLAY FOR ME. THEN GRANDMA WOULD JOIN (SHE PLAYED PIANO). I REMEMBERED THIS PIECE BY MR. JOPLIN SCOTT. IT WAS ALSO PLAYED IN BLACK & WHITE TV SHOWS LIKE CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND CINEMA 8MM FILMS THAT MY GREAT GRAND UNCLE OWNED. THOSE WERE DAYS OF CAREFREE LIVING. ❤❤❤❤❤🐑🙏📖
I too, enjoyed your spending a more substantial time with one tune. Please offer us more. Snippets are interesting, however, I would more enjoy listening to your playing at greater length.
This is my favorite recording of the Maple leaf rag. It is played better than all the other recordings combined and the piano sound so awesome. I keep listening to this every once in a while because it brings a smile to my face and makes my day
My folks enjoyed many types of music and passed this down to my sisters and myself. Mom would play this on her piano from time to time, and Dad would be sitting and listening and tapping his toe right along with the music. Thirty years or so later, when everyone was getting cellphones, I looked through the possible ring tones, and my phone had the "Maple leaf Rag" as a ring tone. Done! Never heard another phone with that ring tone until I got together with one of my sisters and her family. The "Maple leaf Rag" started playing, but it wasn't my phone. Yep, it was my sister's phone. Thanks Mom and Dad for giving us a love for such a range of music!
Most likely new to his repertoire. Wait few months, and he will play it while staring into camera. If only rehersed enough. I have noticed one or two minute moments of hesitation.
This is pretty common, to have the music on the desk in case of a memory lapse. This piece is very hard to play without looking at the hands, the left hand jumps are very difficult
This isn’t classical, he’d obviously just sightread this since he probably didn’t even practice this enough to perform by heart unlike classical pieces.
"This piano is worn out, full of imperfections." In other words, on THIS instrument, It sounds like it would have to the great majority of the Ragtime audience, Circa 1906 or so! 👍😊👍
No, back then those pianos would have been new and in much better condition... pianos deteriorate with age, unfortunately, which is part of why it's so cheap getting an old piano.
@@Mnnvint A piano in a "honky tonk" would likely NOT have been new or in the best condition. That was my point. People in the early 20th century were not hearing Ragtime on a Steinway in a concert hall, They heard it on old instruments in old bars in Mississippi somewhere.
They deliberately removed the felt from the hammers and drove carpet tacks into them to increase the volume in those old dance halls or honky tonks as they were called. The term honky tonk piano is a propper noun as much as a verb.
@@Mnnvint "back then those pianos would have been new and in much better condition..." - Well, not really. A piano tuner probably almost never saw those things plus in a place full of people and cigarette smoke (i.e. big humidity changes and a big source of pollution) probably meant that the pianos' tuning deteriorated rather quickly anyway.
My brother learned this and went on to become a great pianist. One of my fondest memories with him is when we went to the Scott Joplin Museum and he played this on the piano there. So, so good on this piano, too! 1887? Awesome!
This is beautiful!!! I was just talking about being western outlaws and playing old ragtime in an old saloon on an old piano and this immediately popped up 😂♥️♥️♥️ Love you Vin!
IT was a real pleasure to hear the entire piece played all the way through including the repeats. And no, he was reading the music, the full piece goes on a couple more pages. Good work, excellent tempo.
In the late 1980s I was on a skiing trip, staying in Durango, Colorado. One of the bars in Durango had a guy playing ragtime all night on a piano that sounded like this and I wanted to never leave. Scott Joplin literally lifted an entire genre of music into being with his talent and skill, and I love the sound. Thanks.
Sounds like Johnny Maddox playing at the Diamond Belle saloon? Adam Swanson lives there now and plays the place too. However what those guys play is HONKY-TONK piano NOT ragtime.
I've loved this piece since my piano teacher tried to stop me learning it because it wasn't "proper" music. I never did get the hang of those jumping left-hand chords and am envious of how effortless you make it look. Bravo, sir :)
Joplin's music is quite literally classical ragtime. Joshua Rifkin, for example, is one of the best interpreters. He understands Joplin's intentions with the score. This performance is utterly DUMB xD
That's a perfect match, sound to piece. Lovely, thank you for sharing it. Makes me miss playing...we had an old player piano that had been gutted and had strings and hammers put in and the sound was somewhat similar.
I like this nostalgic piano sound. You can determine if the piano is classic and modern. Classic ones or the older one has that tingly thing in your ear when you hear it.
They don't always have "that tingly thing" though. Sometimes the strings sound "warmer" and less fresh, and less crisp (due to the decline of the mute hammers). On some of the notes on my piano, I can kind of hear the hammers moving.
Sometimes they have push pins in the felt to make it twang. Others are modified with a sort of fringe curtain with rivets on it that can be lowered between the hammers and strings.
It's May 2024.No matter how many times I listen to this , I never get tired of it. I love Scott Joplin 's music. Beautiful workmanship. I like this nostalgic piano sound ....from Fort Worth, Texas
I really thank you for this great video! I love the maple leaf rag and to get the opportunity to hear it on an old piano like that is just perfect! Thank you so much.
The fact that he's not looking away from the piano means this song is really hard. My son played this for a piano recital, I feel validated in his choice of piece now. XD
@@thomascraig6814 wow I felt exactly the same - I've always thought the pain in my arms after playing this piece was all 'cause my skill isn't enough, but now I figure that's not true! (btw Joplin the Great always said "it's never right to play ragtime fast", but who would listen to him? LOL)
Well done mate! This has always been one of my favorite pieces. And on that old upright. Watching this video I pictured my self sitting in an old saloon drinking a sarsaparilla and playing cards with a few ol cowboy friends of mine. Thanks for all your hard work take care my friend.
My Grandpa, who was born in 1902 and heard Maple Leaf Rag when it was "new", used to play this for me as a child on his honky tonk piano. As a result, I quickly grew to love Ragtime music and Scott Joplin rags in particular. I own a 1904 Aeolian player just so I can hear "MLR" just the way Joplin played it in 1900. Today, I am nearing retirement and look forward to dedicating my remaining time on earth to learning how to play this magic tune. Vinheterio may well be my instructor for this one!
My grandfather was born in 1893 and Im 40..lol...sadly he died a year after I was born. Served in WW1 and his sons served in WW2. Crazy how that works. He couldn't read or write but he made it work. Built his house on his own which is standing today.
Fun fact, the roll you have of Maple Leaf Rag that's credited to Joplin is a fake xD William Arlington recorded it and if you have the swing version then you have the butchered recut by J. Lawrence Cook on the QRS label.
Great job, it took me an entire summer to be able to play the entire piece at speed without stopping, and I was usually very sore afterwards! And that was like 30 years ago and I wouldn't be able to play this anymore now to save my life. If I remember correctly there are like 6 flats (although I prefer flats over sharps any day!) EXCELLENT rendition of this famous piece!
The right instrument for the right music! I admire your taste and I'm glad you have a place in your heart for that piano. It takes me back to long before you were born, watching Jo Ann Castle on the Lawrence Welk show as a child in the 60s. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
My mom (who was a piano education MAJOR in college) has the Reader's Digest “Great Music’s Greatest Hits” piano book. When I was a kid, this is one of the songs she would play from that book (although it isn't the WHOLE SONG), & my brother & I would dance in the living room!
I have "GMGH", as wel as many other RD Songbooks, and LOVE to play Dan Fox's arrangement of "Maple Leaf Rag" on my Allen church organ - with full Tremulants. It sure is fun!
This is quite possibly my favorite arrangement of sound, ever. This has been my favorite song since birth, 1973, when The Sting was very popular. Hearing you play this on this instrument is as good as it gets. Thank you, Sir.
You are VERY talented artist. As soon as you hit the first note, Winifred Atwell sprung into mind. That tone of an 'Almost tuned' piano begs me to ask whether you could run a version of 'Black & White Rag' on the 1887 instrument. Thank you for the music. Cheers Pete' New Zealand.
I only wish my mother was still alive- she died in 2012 aged 80 - she was taught to play piano by nuns in a convent during WW2 who looked after wards of the state and other children who could be with their parents (my gran was a single mum and was working in the munitions factory nearby so mum was in with the nuns from age 6 until she was 14, just after the war ended). She loved to play and could listen to a tune once and start to pick it up with the right hand as it went and by the time she had finished playing it the first time through, she'd have both hands fully going with embellishments and boy she loved ragtime music! We ended up getting an organ in the early 70s and she would play for hours and I was taught on it too. We went through several until she got her electric Yamaha in the early 2000s when she was playing for the local church. She would go in early to 'warm up the organ' before the service with about an hour of just whatever she felt like playing, from show tunes to Beethoven, until people arrived then they would give her requests which gave the congregation a really warm feeling and happy start to the day.
The sound reminds me of the silent picture pianist who banged away for hours accompanying the movies. Great sound and enjoy it when you play straight music. You play well. Enjoy your channel.
Keith Emerson's rendition is the first time I heard this tune when I bought Emerson Lake and Palmer Works Volume 2 in 1977. This version is pretty good too! Oh and thankyou kind Sir for playing the whole thing.
So, what makes the sound on the honky tonk piano so distinctive? Do they add extra metal inside or take the felt pads off the little hammers inside? Also, I have discovered why Vin stares at the camera when he usually plays. It's because he's hiding an adorable cowlick.
Somehow, I felt inexplicably surprised that he managed to get through that entire piece without being forced to hide inside the piano to avoid a comedically-escalating saloon-fight.
LOL.
_[ fight abruptly stops ] [ a few beats of silence ]_
*"'EY! PIANNY MAN!* Git outta there and keep playin!"
_[ pianist slowly peeks out of piano, sees everyone in the saloon glaring at him, some reaching for sidearms ]_
_[ Maple Leaf Rag resumes ] [ saloon brawl resumes, explosively ]_
@@HaloInverse nice
...while not missing a beat or a false note.
I heard that in saloon fights, there’s a rule where you can’t shoot at or near the pianist
You know it’s a complex piece when Vinheteiro doesn’t play it while staring into your sole
I’m glad Scott Joplin is being more and more recognized as one of the greats he truly is
Why is he staring at my foot?
Let him be it's better when he's not stirring at me😂😂 or is it. 😂
Scott's pieces have very very jumpy left hands. If you don't look at your jumps, you gotta be a reaaally great and used to his pieces.
@@andybaldman your fish, actually
Maple leaf rag isn't complicated imo. It's the jumps in the left hand that makes him look at the keys pretty sure.
Scott Joplin’s music was among my favorite to learn as a pianist. I liked this cause I closed my eyes & imagined being in a tiny old school club hearing someone play that good ragtime 🥰
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Im a violinist but my dying dream is learning good old Joplins ragtime
@think differently Bruh
@@sagar1992 I HATE when I get misdirected to some dammed troll video. 😒
As much as I "dig" Janis, Scott is the Joplin I REALLY dig! It was awesome to hear this on a period correct instrument! - Any imperfections in it (from well played use, not damage) likely is as close as one can get to the ACTUAL sound of this tune as heard in the early 20th Century!
Apropos. Joplin's music just transports us to another time and place. Nice on that old piano! He and Sousa were certainly two defining influences of that age. The ragtime king and the march king.
Every art form, once got in hands of Americans, turns shit. The snooker becomes pool, sculpture becomes golden toilet, piano masterpiece is rug/rag. It's sad.
@@seanleith5312 Depends of course on how you look at it, but there is a kernel of truth to what you say. However, no matter what country you are from, there is always music that will define certain periods of time. And of course, one persons trash can be another persons treasure. People are just people and time doesn't change that very much at all.
@@seanleith5312 dude what the fuck? Lmao
@@seanleith5312 Who asked? You seem salty for no real reason.
But is so sad that there were so many composers, and in the end, two decades of music is distilled into... Sousa and Joplin.
At least we remember Mozart's contemporaries.
My dad played the accordion and my mother the piano. My dad would come home from work and chop out the Maple Leaf Rag on my mothers piano and he got to where he could play it very well over time. Fond memories. He is gone now, but this helped me remember.
Thanks for sharing :)
I think now I would try on the accordion
MY GREAT GRAND UNCLE PLAYED MANY INSTRUMENTS FROM BANJO TO ACCORDEON. HE TOO WOULD COME TO HIS SISTER'S HOUSE AND PLAY FOR ME. THEN GRANDMA WOULD JOIN (SHE PLAYED PIANO). I REMEMBERED THIS PIECE BY MR. JOPLIN SCOTT. IT WAS ALSO PLAYED IN BLACK & WHITE TV SHOWS LIKE CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND CINEMA 8MM FILMS THAT MY GREAT GRAND UNCLE OWNED. THOSE WERE DAYS OF CAREFREE LIVING.
❤❤❤❤❤🐑🙏📖
I think of my grandfather when I here the Entertainer
Me too
You know its a hard piece when vinheteiro is actually looking at the instrument he is playing
only the left hand jumps in the trio require you to look at the piano
And screwing up while playing it XD
Thank you, Master, for playing a whole piece!
I too, enjoyed your spending a more substantial time with one tune. Please offer us more. Snippets are interesting, however, I would more enjoy listening to your playing at greater length.
Bravo!! 👏👏👏👏
I never knew TheMaple Leaf Rag had so many sections!
@@sherrybirchall8677 Same!
@@sherrybirchall8677 I didn't either.
This is my favorite recording of the Maple leaf rag.
It is played better than all the other recordings combined and the piano sound so awesome.
I keep listening to this every once in a while because it brings a smile to my face and makes my day
I love Scott Joplin's music, beautifully performed on this original piano.
An original but also destroyed instrument that was purposefully ruined
So fun! Those poor people in 1887 were missing the top three notes of the piano.
bite of 87??! golden freddy bit those off for sure
but did they have the magic and the mystery of potato knishes?
Rat Boy, the man, the legend
Where did they put them?
Maple Leaf Rag was published in 1899.
I've always been a big fan of ragtime and I think Joplin fully deserves his place along the great composers in history.
Hear! Hear!
Amen.
Sadly, you will hear it only occasionally on today's airwaves.
yeah
Wonderful! I love Maple Leaf Rag and to hear it played well on a period piano is just perfect.
Not what period pianos sound like
That music was my late father's go - to. Almost cried when I heard it. Funny what still hits the heart after the years.
My folks enjoyed many types of music and passed this down to my sisters and myself. Mom would play this on her piano from time to time, and Dad would be sitting and listening and tapping his toe right along with the music. Thirty years or so later, when everyone was getting cellphones, I looked through the possible ring tones, and my phone had the "Maple leaf Rag" as a ring tone. Done! Never heard another phone with that ring tone until I got together with one of my sisters and her family. The "Maple leaf Rag" started playing, but it wasn't my phone. Yep, it was my sister's phone. Thanks Mom and Dad for giving us a love for such a range of music!
Wait he’s not only looking at the keyboard but has the sheet music too? Congratulations to Mr. Joplin for pulling off a near impossible feat!
Wait? You think the guy playing the piano is Scott Joplin?
Not at all. If I have to explain the joke it's not funny.
Most likely new to his repertoire. Wait few months, and he will play it while staring into camera. If only rehersed enough. I have noticed one or two minute moments of hesitation.
This is pretty common, to have the music on the desk in case of a memory lapse. This piece is very hard to play without looking at the hands, the left hand jumps are very difficult
This isn’t classical, he’d obviously just sightread this since he probably didn’t even practice this enough to perform by heart unlike classical pieces.
"This piano is worn out, full of imperfections." In other words, on THIS instrument, It sounds like it would have to the great majority of the Ragtime audience, Circa 1906 or so! 👍😊👍
No, back then those pianos would have been new and in much better condition... pianos deteriorate with age, unfortunately, which is part of why it's so cheap getting an old piano.
@@Mnnvint A piano in a "honky tonk" would likely NOT have been new or in the best condition. That was my point. People in the early 20th century were not hearing Ragtime on a Steinway in a concert hall, They heard it on old instruments in old bars in Mississippi somewhere.
They deliberately removed the felt from the hammers and drove carpet tacks into them to increase the volume in those old dance halls or honky tonks as they were called. The term honky tonk piano is a propper noun as much as a verb.
@@nowhereman7813 "They deliberately removed the felt from the hammers and drove carpet tacks into them" - I think that that's complete BS.
@@Mnnvint "back then those pianos would have been new and in much better condition..." - Well, not really. A piano tuner probably almost never saw those things plus in a place full of people and cigarette smoke (i.e. big humidity changes and a big source of pollution) probably meant that the pianos' tuning deteriorated rather quickly anyway.
Thank you for sharing music with us, especially with your brilliant twist of humor. I just read about Scott Joplin. Fascinating fellow.
I feel as if I'm in an Old West saloon listening to this. A toast to Scott Joplin and Vinheteiro!
This classic will never get old.
My brother learned this and went on to become a great pianist. One of my fondest memories with him is when we went to the Scott Joplin Museum and he played this on the piano there. So, so good on this piano, too! 1887? Awesome!
This is beautiful!!! I was just talking about being western outlaws and playing old ragtime in an old saloon on an old piano and this immediately popped up 😂♥️♥️♥️ Love you Vin!
Computer: "I hear ya...there you go". 🤣
Westerns take place in the 1860s, any movie playing ragtime or jazz in general in the saloons is SO wrong it's not even funny.
This sounds amazing!
What a gorgeous piano, from a time when beauty was not just the sound, but the style.
Lovely!
🎹🎼🎶🎵🔉🔊
Man that sounds soooo good on that piano…wow!! Love it! Great playing Lord!
The white tie really made it...
Very crisp playing. It's always a joy to hear a professional play.
It’s as if the spirit of every musicians song he plays comes and plays for him! Amazing
Lord Vinheteiro is the piano-shaman. You can see from his eyes there is no soul in his body, only the musical masters of yesteryear.
IT was a real pleasure to hear the entire piece played all the way through including the repeats. And no, he was reading the music, the full piece goes on a couple more pages. Good work, excellent tempo.
Mannn I love these old pianos! Awesome work bro 👍
One of the most classic pieces of music, and just such a fun tune!
In the late 1980s I was on a skiing trip, staying in Durango, Colorado. One of the bars in Durango had a guy playing ragtime all night on a piano that sounded like this and I wanted to never leave. Scott Joplin literally lifted an entire genre of music into being with his talent and skill, and I love the sound. Thanks.
Sounds like Johnny Maddox playing at the Diamond Belle saloon? Adam Swanson lives there now and plays the place too. However what those guys play is HONKY-TONK piano NOT ragtime.
My dad almost moved to Durango in 1962, saw a sign there that said “Work is the curse of the drinking man.”😅
@@ChrisLeonard-np7lh xDDDD
Superb. UA-cam has brought so many talented musicians to the world stage, and I'm really thankful for the opportunity to witness their virtuosity.
This never get old!
Forever and ever my favourite ragtime song. Never ceases to put a smile on my face whenever I hear it :D
Good to my ears.
Good to my souls.
My favorite ragtime tune. I think I've known this tune since I was maybe 4.
Your performance is out of this world. I loved it !!
I've loved this piece since my piano teacher tried to stop me learning it because it wasn't "proper" music. I never did get the hang of those jumping left-hand chords and am envious of how effortless you make it look. Bravo, sir :)
Joplin's music is quite literally classical ragtime. Joshua Rifkin, for example, is one of the best interpreters. He understands Joplin's intentions with the score. This performance is utterly DUMB xD
AWESOME!!!!! I wished you had more videos like this.
Scott Joplin sempre soará melhor em um piano antigo e desafinado.
E verdade.
He doesn't stare at us, meaning this must be complex to play😉😉 great video!
The way it was meant to be played! Simply beautiful! So Those piano sound a bit tinny but you play so well it was wonderful!
Very enjoyable, and great fun. Thank you very much - most versatile, the classics one day, and Scott Joplin the next. Bravo.
Abraços a você nosso Compatriota do Brasil, Parabéns o seu talento é incrível e representa muito bem nossa Nação 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
That's a perfect match, sound to piece. Lovely, thank you for sharing it. Makes me miss playing...we had an old player piano that had been gutted and had strings and hammers put in and the sound was somewhat similar.
Amazing I love Scott Joplin thank you my Lord 🙏x
From Classical music, to another form of Classic music.... Brilliant! And what a piece to play on that fine antique instrument... Loved it!! 👏👏👏 😎🇬🇧
I like this nostalgic piano sound. You can determine if the piano is classic and modern. Classic ones or the older one has that tingly thing in your ear when you hear it.
They don't always have "that tingly thing" though. Sometimes the strings sound "warmer" and less fresh, and less crisp (due to the decline of the mute hammers). On some of the notes on my piano, I can kind of hear the hammers moving.
@@yeudler41 ..and sometimes, even tho older pianos, are just on tune....
@@Lyserdigi I didn't know that was allowed :P
@@yeudler41 I completely agree.
Sometimes they have push pins in the felt to make it twang. Others are modified with a sort of fringe curtain with rivets on it that can be lowered between the hammers and strings.
You sir are simply great,plus I love ragtime music. I could listen as long as you play. Thank you.
Great rendition. I used to play this, but haven't for 20 years. Wouldn't know where to start now! Well done, sir.
Splendid music! Wow just amazing 👍👍👍👍👍
This is lovely! Also very happy you’re posting full-length pieces again and not only snippets. 👍
It's May 2024.No matter how many times I listen to this , I never get tired of it. I love Scott Joplin 's music. Beautiful workmanship. I like this nostalgic piano sound ....from Fort Worth, Texas
I really thank you for this great video! I love the maple leaf rag and to get the opportunity to hear it on an old piano like that is just perfect! Thank you so much.
I love this song so much, I was trying to learn to play it a few years ago and this makes me want to try to continue learning. It’s such a fun song!
The fact that he's not looking away from the piano means this song is really hard. My son played this for a piano recital, I feel validated in his choice of piece now. XD
The left hand accompany in this piece is insane (especially the jumps).
I’m a pianist. This piece is super hard. My forearms burn when playing it; like it’s quite a mental and physical workout. Lol.
@@thomascraig6814 wow I felt exactly the same - I've always thought the pain in my arms after playing this piece was all 'cause my skill isn't enough, but now I figure that's not true! (btw Joplin the Great always said "it's never right to play ragtime fast", but who would listen to him? LOL)
@@freewheeler1728 Do you try to play it as fast as possible?
"The fact that he's not looking away from the piano means this song is really hard." - Indeed it is, yeah.
Awesome! That piano is perfect for this song too!
Cool video, i have a similar piano at home, but it's much younger. Could you play "The Entertainer" on this piano next time?
Bravo sir! Absolutely perfect. 👍
Beautiful! More of Scott Joplin songs please
Beautiful and you capture the spirit of the Ragtime era perfectly. Even the candle burning is so appropriate.
You are the greatest, fun to watch, and highly skilled, never seen anyone like you. Something to be proud of, keep it up!!!
This is a great tune, old pianos have great personalities
Well done mate! This has always been one of my favorite pieces. And on that old upright. Watching this video I pictured my self sitting in an old saloon drinking a sarsaparilla and playing cards with a few ol cowboy friends of mine. Thanks for all your hard work take care my friend.
Two minutes and forty-five seconds of pure bliss. Thank you so much!
I need more of you playing from a distance via strings!
Can’t tell you the last time I heard ALL of this piece. Thank you for doing it in its entirety.
My Grandpa, who was born in 1902 and heard Maple Leaf Rag when it was "new", used to play this for me as a child on his honky tonk piano. As a result, I quickly grew to love Ragtime music and Scott Joplin rags in particular. I own a 1904 Aeolian player just so I can hear "MLR" just the way Joplin played it in 1900. Today, I am nearing retirement and look forward to dedicating my remaining time on earth to learning how to play this magic tune. Vinheterio may well be my instructor for this one!
How old are you if you don’t mind me asking? Because the fact that your grandpa was born in 1902 blows my mind!
My grandfather was born in 1893 and Im 40..lol...sadly he died a year after I was born. Served in WW1 and his sons served in WW2. Crazy how that works. He couldn't read or write but he made it work. Built his house on his own which is standing today.
Fun fact, the roll you have of Maple Leaf Rag that's credited to Joplin is a fake xD William Arlington recorded it and if you have the swing version then you have the butchered recut by J. Lawrence Cook on the QRS label.
@@PiotrBarczdoesn’t matter who played for it. Long as it has the notes right?
@@KandiKlover Well not exactly, there's bad performances, there's good performances. That original connorized roll by Arlington is fantastic.
What fun! Thank you sharing this wonderful video!
Beautiful! Something about pianos like these make ragtime so fun. Great playing!
Great job, it took me an entire summer to be able to play the entire piece at speed without stopping, and I was usually very sore afterwards! And that was like 30 years ago and I wouldn't be able to play this anymore now to save my life. If I remember correctly there are like 6 flats (although I prefer flats over sharps any day!) EXCELLENT rendition of this famous piece!
Nope. 4 flats to start, 5 in the third section, back to 4 for the last one. It’s a handful, to say the least, but a thrilling one.
Really good, I hope you'll also play some pieces by J. Scott and J. Lamb. There's are underrated rag composers nowadays.
Refreshing... Calming to just watch you play - thanks.
I love this piece of music!! Scott Joplin was a genius!
The right instrument for the right music! I admire your taste and I'm glad you have a place in your heart for that piano. It takes me back to long before you were born, watching Jo Ann Castle on the Lawrence Welk show as a child in the 60s. Thank you for sharing your talents with us.
She played stride, if I recall correctly.
Sounds perfect on this piano! Great song and great playing, thanks😃
Simply brilliant, enjoyed listening to the whole piece, thank you.
From an aged guitarist to a virtuoso; you, Sir, are amazing.
I’m not used to seeing so much of “the back of Vinheteiro”
But I was mesmerized by the flying fingers
My mom (who was a piano education MAJOR in college) has the Reader's Digest “Great Music’s Greatest Hits” piano book. When I was a kid, this is one of the songs she would play from that book (although it isn't the WHOLE SONG), & my brother & I would dance in the living room!
I have "GMGH", as wel as many other RD Songbooks, and LOVE to play Dan Fox's arrangement of "Maple Leaf Rag" on my Allen church organ - with full Tremulants. It sure is fun!
I believe Mr. Scott Joplin just tipped his hat to that rendition of his famous song. Very nicely played!!
This is quite possibly my favorite arrangement of sound, ever. This has been my favorite song since birth, 1973, when The Sting was very popular. Hearing you play this on this instrument is as good as it gets.
Thank you, Sir.
This is a masterpiece!. Kind regards from Argentina.
How gloriously raffish this instrument sounds! SO atmospheric. . . . . .Love it. . .
Love it. I half expected to see the old text placards they used in silent movies and to see Charlie Chaplen walking around.
This is the longest time i see him not staring into my soul
the quality of the playing is just about the same as the stare: soul-boring and perfect.
It’s cool that you can see the area of the keyboard that gets played most often by the darken keys.
No fancy cars, no naked women, no drugs, just real music. I was born in the wrong generation
They used to play this kind of music at brothels kek.
And maybe not fancy car, but more like a horse and buggy.
You are VERY talented artist. As soon as you hit the first note, Winifred Atwell sprung into mind. That tone of an 'Almost tuned' piano begs me to ask whether you could run a version of 'Black & White Rag' on the 1887 instrument.
Thank you for the music.
Cheers
Pete' New Zealand.
One of my all time favorite songs to listen to. Thank you for performing the entire piece!!!
One composer being so synonymous with an entire genre in the way that Scott joplin is with ragtime does not happen in any other genre of music
Such a great sound!
Also great to hear you play an entire piece of music! More please!!! 😀👍😀
I only wish my mother was still alive- she died in 2012 aged 80 - she was taught to play piano by nuns in a convent during WW2 who looked after wards of the state and other children who could be with their parents (my gran was a single mum and was working in the munitions factory nearby so mum was in with the nuns from age 6 until she was 14, just after the war ended). She loved to play and could listen to a tune once and start to pick it up with the right hand as it went and by the time she had finished playing it the first time through, she'd have both hands fully going with embellishments and boy she loved ragtime music!
We ended up getting an organ in the early 70s and she would play for hours and I was taught on it too. We went through several until she got her electric Yamaha in the early 2000s when she was playing for the local church. She would go in early to 'warm up the organ' before the service with about an hour of just whatever she felt like playing, from show tunes to Beethoven, until people arrived then they would give her requests which gave the congregation a really warm feeling and happy start to the day.
You know a song is hard when Vinheteiro has to look at the piano and use sheet music.
The sound reminds me of the silent picture pianist who banged away for hours accompanying the movies. Great sound and enjoy it when you play straight music. You play well. Enjoy your channel.
How i love rag-time, it’s always been one of my “grow up” styles; and i’m fond of it. Wonderful performance!
私達は魅力的な演奏に集中していまい、後ろにある開いた金庫に気付かない
Joplin was a man who certainly knew how to make the best use of both hands.
Yes, the ladies of the time were also saying the same.
Very Clever Understated Dude !
It’s just some thing fun, innocent, optimistic and cheerful about ragtime. Thank you for gifting me with this great rendition of a favourite!
Keith Emerson's rendition is the first time I heard this tune when I bought Emerson Lake and Palmer Works Volume 2 in 1977.
This version is pretty good too!
Oh and thankyou kind Sir for playing the whole thing.
So, what makes the sound on the honky tonk piano so distinctive? Do they add extra metal inside or take the felt pads off the little hammers inside?
Also, I have discovered why Vin stares at the camera when he usually plays. It's because he's hiding an adorable cowlick.
That song sounds great on that piano!