Player piano "The Entertainer"
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- This was my latest project. I picked it and 68 rolls of music up for little of nothing because it didn't work. Honestly, it didn't take much to get it running again. There was a rats nest in the vacuum box that had wedged into the motor brushes and didn't allow contact. A general cleanup, adjustment, and repairing a few parts had it in pretty good shape.
damn, that invisible guy is pretty good
not one mistake
Oliver but look at his hands! Works too hard at that piano
rzeka *invisable asian
rzeka
It's a ghost
*it's a trap!!!!*
1900s piano player guy: "Well there goes my job"
not really, they still needed at least a random guy sitting there competent enough to fake it, otherwise people would freak the hell out cause they would think the piano was haunted
THEY ARE STEALING OUR JOBS !
Damn, disruptive technology!
@@simonedaishi5290 Yes and no, they did need someone sitting there but not because people would freak out over the piano. Pianolas were well known by the public, but at least in the 1900's they required someone to manually pump the pianos pedals to power the motor inside. Later pianos like this were made to be electrical and even some antique ones were modified to be electrical.
earlier versions required someone to pedal it with their feet.
*when a piece of paper can play piano better than you*
When a screwdriver can screw in a screw better then you! ;)
well, there goes my motivation
wait.. what motivation?
These replies and this comment are SO FUNNY!!! BUAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
when a jack hammer can drill better than you ;)
Oh why howdyhowdy, funny to find you here!! It appears you too have good taste in content 😳
Congratulations, you played yourself
Paul F Tompkins You’re my hero.
Yeah, this thing really put a quarter in its ass.
Fake
Paul F Tompkins I saw your tweet about this and came on UA-cam to find it and like it.
Hi Paul!
Imagine using this as a Halloween decoration, so when the Trick or Treaters look through the window, they will see that the piano is playing itself
and then a grammophon playing :)
or imagine you do a hologram where acreepy ghosts sits there and you program it so it looks like a ghost palys this piano in real life xDD
Shaggy: "Zoinks, ghosts!"
Scooby: "Rhost!"
Velma: "It's not a ghost! It's a player piano."
Shaggy: "So who's playing it?!"
Velma: "It's automatic"
@Jessica Peterson at the start of the video u can see, that there are glass sliding doors to cover that up!
@Jessica Peterson they’d probably never seen a self-playing piano like this one, and would not know what’s going on inside and why there’s even a roll of paper
They should place this in a "haunted house" somewhere..
xD
Definately... this is somehow really disconcerting
SheepInCabbage but they should probably replace the song... this song is just way too amusing to be scary
Would be expensive i guess
Everyone: OMG A PIANO PLAYING ITSELF!
Me: OMG A PLAYER PIANO! I HAVENT SEEN ONE BEFORE
Imagine setting one of these up in an abandoned church and waiting for an urban explorer to walk in and scaring the crap out of them XD
Nick Young 😂😂😂😂
10 Billion IQ
They had one of these in an old Scooby Doo episode and it had that exact effect lol!
Oh, you watch that too!
That is the funniest idea I've heard involving a player-piano! Love it!
I actually really like the way it sounds out of tune. This video is so awesome!
I know, right? And since it's not playing with any other instrument, it's not most will even notice.
+Chinchilla Man (Chinchilla Man 69) thanks! And my favorites gotta be "if I needed someone" off of rubber soul. It's definitely a recent favorite of mine? How about yours?
Kayla Plante I do too
Kayla Plante A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
It sounds old-fashioned ... I think that is because the old video/audio recordings weren't always so accurate, especially when tape is used, so the pitches/tones are a little off. (Plus older electronics and microphones didn't have such good sound quality back then.)
Today I learned: A roll of literal paper can play piano better than I can.
*black and white silent film of a bar fight intensifies*
The 1900's Synthesia
lma0
the fourth white key is stuck in place XD
cannot unnotice
You mean the D is stuck?
must be why it's played in a different key
Pounicoss just a really long note
@@botchamaniajeezus Until right at the end when it pops up again ... cannot unnotice that either. lol
The keys on any piano are wood, but the overlays can be made of ivory, bone, or synthetic. This piano has synthetic ivory caps.
ravensrayne I never knew
fun fact, old pianos like those, normally its quite easy to tell what is what, because wooden keys are only white on the top and a brown on the sides that other keys hide, only the keys are white from what the eye can see and I think it was changed to fully white for the 80s or 90s pianos?
@@blurofmusic fyi, this piano is most likely from the 1980s. They switched key top material from Ivory to Mylar in the late 19 teens then to plastic a few years later.
so you can make a piano using wood AND bones!?!. amazing.
Beautiful. I've always wanted a self-playing piano. They're very lovely.
I'm glad you got this one to work. More people need to put their minds to fixing gems like this up to make them last longer. There isn't any telling who has set at that piano and played it raw many times!
That is very, VERY true.
I don't see you fixing any old gems up Ruthie. More people, like you, need to work on themselves instead of being critical busy-bodies that care about everyone else's business.
@@theloanranger2632 My comment is so innocent and yours is very uncalled for. Who hurt you? And by the way, you don't know whether I fix them up or not, now do you? Pitiful. Try taking your own advice and staying out of my business.
@@theloanranger2632 Not to get involved, but I think Ruth was saying it as a compliment to the person who uploaded the video and done up the piano, you don't have to get involved in anyone's buisness, and Ruth has a right to upload what they want to upload. They don't have to upload everything they do. Not sure what kind of mood you are in now, but 6 months ago tells another story.
wow Synthesia was so cool in the 1900's
Darn right it was! The sound was better to. (grumbling voice) Not like the GS Wavetable Synth that's on Windows.
Just like most things in the 1900s
This is like a magical piano that plays by itself.
Only "like"? It didn't just do it?
Early stages of MIDIs... just thought to bring that out
+Wardcartoonmaker get out now
Okay :( (Walks out head down Frowning)
Wardcartoonmaker Hah, that does seem like it!
Grant Pauley, Wardcartoonmaker has done nothing wrong.
It’s true
I didn't know John Cena was talented at the piano.
Yeah he even inspired Scott to make that bear game
I can smell dust and wood from here
It's quite out of tune also Russ lol
Pretty badly but it does kind of make it sound old...😏🎹🎹🎹🎹🎼🎶
***** Its not out of tune, it just old and wont sound like pianos will play now adays
+CrazyFrogVlogger How can you claim that it's not out of tune because it is very obviously is out of tune.
And piano sound hasn't really changed much in a LONG while, like there are hundred year old pianos which sound the same as newer ones. Desireable sounding pianos got easier to obtain though since Japanese picked up the business.
+ravensrayne The reason it sounds so out of tune is because it is being played in B-flat major when the original is C major. However, the piano is also flat by a semitone, so it is out of tune.
+CrazyFrogVlogger firstly it is out of tune, secondly that piano isnt terribly old.
I loved these when I was a kid. Could watch for hours. This one is out of tune, and pretty bad, a good re-tune would do wonders, but nonetheless it retains its enticing quality.
I could watch for DAYS! HAHAHA!
How old are you
I love the out of tune high notes on the piano. It sounds so cool
It's an Aeolian. Not a Duo-Art, just a standard 88 note action. I like that fact that the roll doesn't go snapping in the spool box after the re-roll cycle for several seconds which is very abusive, it just stops the motor and slows down nicely.
Some chords are broken and the piano is out of tune... i love it😍
I personally love it to. But this isn’t out of tune, it is just played in a different key instead of the original. But I really do like the sound!!
@@flexiblepaper7389 Yeah looking back now it definitely is out of tune. Guess I didn’t pick that up when I first made that comment.
In soviet Russia, piano plays you!
When the Ice cream truck comes;
We all scream,
for ICE CREAM!
Congratulations, you played yourself.
-.-
*Inhales* Boi
Hi! I’m a prospective film applicant applying to the nyu film program. Can i use a few seconds of this video in my movie? I will credit you and this video in the end of my movie and can also send it to you if you want. If you have any other conditions please let me know as I would love to use this scene in my move. Thank you!
No response 😭
Still no response 1 year later.
I think I might buy this scroll. If I do, I’ll take a vid of it and send it to ur e-mail or something if u want
The old saloon sound goes good with this song.
Imagine standing for 3:43 minutes recording a piano 👍🏼👍🏼
You don’t have to imagine it, the video is showing it right there
I couldn't resist dancing or humming along
Crazier things have been done in the name of entertainment and education. Lol
Zoomers are so ADHD ridden that standing relatively still for 4 minutes is like climbing a mountain to them lololooololo
it seems like it would require 2 people to play this song with some of the notes
Yeah, and invisible too.
Too bad it is playing so fast. Scott Joplin always complained that people played his music - and especially "The Entertainer" -way too fast. Try slowing down the tempo to about half as fast and see if you don't appreciate it more.
I simply cannot agree with you more!
not that slow, maybe 25% slower
You're right, Garth. 25% slower would be a nice tempo.
jesus christ half as fast? nothing played that slow will ever sound good
Very true! On every Joplin song I've come across, it makes a point of saying "Not Fast" on the sheet music. It's crazy how many brilliant pianists just ignore it and play it way faster than it was meant to be played
Invisible MAN strikes again!
I always loved the usage of this robotic piano in "Westworld"
reminds me of a certain distinguished gentleman walking in harlem.
Perhaps one who put the Forgis on the Jeep?
The power of computation!
And it was made in the 1900's
The earliest known example of automation taking someone's job
Tune that high Bb!
“This piano plays me.”-
-Other Father: Coraline
Plot twist: you recorded a ghost playing the piano
What I would do to own one of these!!! I love them! So antique! I love out of tune pianos too because they sound rustic and like your in one of those old western saloons! :)
Thank you
You can actually get one for a pretty cheap price usually a working or semiworking player costs about 250 to 450 dollars. But you can get a working one for free if you look hard enough (that's how I got mine!). And some players in perfect condition can be worth over 20,000 dollars!
sweet! Haha when I get my own house some day in the future, Then I'll have to look for one. :) thanks for letting me know that!
Where did you look for you free one, it's awesome!
Nothing could be more correct to me than that!
Thanks I’m gonna put this in an abandoned place now
I studied piano when I was a kid in the 70s, and I can play by ear and have composed pop music. I find it fascinating that the "player piano" was a way to play a song on a piano automatically before MIDI was invented. In this day and age, you have a MIDI sequence in the form of a computer file, and you run a MIDI cable from the computer or sequencer to the piano or electronic keyboard.
Midi is the digital version of the self playing piano roll and is why in all DAWs the sequencer is called a "Piano Roll".
imagine hearing this in the middle of the Night😂😂
0:13 vacuum cleaner
joey hartemink it’s actually made of vacuums motors lol
Not actually all that far off.
Pianolas are run with a negative air pressure system. It has large bellows on the bottom from which air is removed to create a partial vacuum which, through a series of valves and tubes, actuates the hammers that strike the strings playing the music.
The earliest models of pianolas used pedals that the pianist would push with their feet to suck the air out, but after the advent of the electric motor, they started using those. Basically, it is like a vacuum cleaner hooked up to the bellows.
joey hartemink it does sound like a vacuum cleaner 😀
The old saloon sound goes good with this song.
My Piano teacher had one in her house, if a student was good they'd be treated to a song with a otter pop
I've been looking for this song! It took me ages!
This player piano was likely made some time in the 1970s or 1980s. Around that time, the interest in player pianos was so high, that Aeolian, one of the biggest player piano manufacturers from the player piano heyday decided to resume production of pneumatic players. The newer models were smaller console and spinet pianos, consistent with the trends at the time.
@Bob Chris is correct about the age of this Aeolian player piano. It was made to look like a 1920's player piano but in the 1970's and 80's . Aeolian sadly went out of business around 1986 when the revival interest in player pianos was fading.
We got ours in the 1940s, but it was much richer and darker wood.
I love the fact that it's slightly out of tune and in the wrong tempo
it makes it creepy :)
needs a basic tuning, would sound a lot less spooky, honestly I am amazed at the level of technology~ thank you for sharing this~ Jayster
The original "Karaoke Machines". This model is a reproduction 1970' or 80's model. The Aeolian Company(Memphis, TN) went out of business in the mid-late 80's as the computerized players and keyboards arrived on the scene. Too bad as the roll operated player piano is so much more fun than either one of these electronic gadgets.
1:46 that is really out of tune
Jay Jay gaming 14 Ikr 😂
local invisible man aces the fuck out of piano
This would make a good haunted house prop * self playing piano *
Man, this piano really needs a tuning :D
I think it gives it a more saloon sound
A good tuning might be in order unless you want that out of tune sound. Thanks for sharing, it's kindly appreciated and you did a great job on the repairs! Thanks again.
Speed this up, that's how they'd play it in the movies. I guess they forgot which coffie was decaff this morning
*sets up in abandoned area where someone states there gonna explore*. *waits*
*hears footsteps*. *turns on machine when they step closer*
*enjoy the surprised screams as you watch there live stream*
You could play the most epic prank on someone....It's 1:00am and your friend is staying over....you sneak to the lounge and start this baby up....You rush in to your friend "OMG THE PIANO IS PLAYING BY...ITSELF" Your friend rushes out and....see's it and faints LOL
ThoroughbredRock GENIUS!!!!!!GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!
ThoroughbredRock, lol. If I was there, I’d just sit there and listen to it play this song the whole night...
selfplaying piano, reminds me of westworld... :D (of course I know, your video was first )
Westworld's pianola is so hauntingly beautiful
LOL... I am here coz of Westworld.
AHHH! A g-g-g-ghost!
I saw this on Westworld. Didn't know it was a thing.
Same haha.
I was so confused as to how the robots were just ignoring this fururistic piano thing. Turns out they really existed in the wild west!
If that randomly plays in my house I'm going to piss my pants
Somthing about old slightly out of tune pianos just sound fantastic. They have a ring that sounds just perfect nothing today sounds like the old upright bar style pianos
Piano plays itself better than I can?
Was it made in Asia?
No. Its made in china
TyloniumTV ......uummm, you do know China is an Asian country, right?
Judyp77 😂😂😂
Probably made in America if it's that old.
the player pianos were made by the french.
Everybody gangsta til Jah starts playing the piano
I think it sounds just fine the way it is! People have their own opinions on this hisroric piano
A.J. Swierzbinski Nononononono! There are no different opinions. I HAS to be tuned.
Hexagon "I HAS to be tuned" Wait, so YOU want to be tuned, eh? That sounded weird as hell man
Hexagon what is the definition of 'I Has'?
I have been telling that to other youtubers for the past 15 minutes! Thank you for having the same opinion as me!
I had a sleep paralysis that sounded just like this except for the intro and several seconds into it it started playing random notes, but the player seemed supernaturally talented
"Sleep paralysis"? Huhhh?
Charlie Chaplin.
When the PG movie tries to be scary:
That was the most played song on our player, but it was foot pedalled, no electric!
I have a player piano. My family hasn't used it in years. It still has Dixie in it. Scary part is, it goes off randomly sometimes. It's not even the electric kind like this one. It requires a human being.
To sit at the piano.
pedaling it.
with their feet.
So now I think I'm haunted.
I have a player piano with pedals in it, I did put an electric pump in it though, the pedals don't supply enough suction.
I'd shit myself if I walked into a room and saw this....
Very beautiful piano. I would love to hear other tunes on it.
A ghost plays The Entertainer. The ghost must be a very good pianist.
Play at 0.75 x and it’s just right. Piano is beautifully out of tune, perfect for ragtime!
nothing can beat Ragtime
Love this piano! How much cost of this? I really want to buy this masterpiece!
I just bought one in good condition with about 50 rolls for $60 Australian
I found one on craigslist for $200 in New Hampshire.
So that's how a Player Piano plays a music roll. Sweet! I wonder how it knows what keys exactly to play?
It follows the little holes in the paper, just like a computer program uses the little holes on punch cards, if it's any good at all and doesn't just run on floppy discs. .
www.pianola.com/ppworks.htm is the diagram of the works... the vacuum can also be electric or pedal operated.
There are holes in the paper and there are holes in the tracker bar under the paper. Hole opens, note plays.
According to my mom my friend had a player piano at his house and that I was obsessed with it, seems history repeats itself
The one key on the end is broken
Damn bruh John Cena is good
Just cover the little window that shows the note displayed and boom you got so much potential for horror movies.
Tune that piano!! Please. :)
Yeah, and those WEREN'T supposed to be like that
I love the sound of the piano
Come on! Is it really that bad?
@Itz Gavin he means the higher keys.
chatgpt working good as well
I’d start this while my friends are in another room and quickly leave to a different room, so they’ll get freaked out when they find no one playing the piano.
So apparently my piano used to be one of these, and it stopped working and was stripped and made into a run of the mill not self playing piano and seeing what it used to be able to do makes me sad that it was stripped out instead of repaired
It's really a bummer to find a gutted player piano, The Antique Piano Shop can build a new action though! If you have some cash to burn then you can have a working player!
A true timeless classic 😀
That ghost dude has got some talent, dang!
kinda creepy, but still awesome. like the sound you've heard in old western saloon
That's actually really cute
Wow I've never seen an electric player piano before, although played a few pedal ones. :)
That's cool because you have more control.
I've seen an electric GRAND player and man that thing was LOUD.
I'm surprised you've never even seen a modern one, that runs on MIDI actuation instead of air.
And in a different key than the original.
Yup, B flat.
OOP! The Bb key playing the A note, that's when you know that it's in Baroque tuning. Here's history. Before the late 1700s-1800s, the tuning in music was a half step below what we hear now, but there were issues with it, so people tuned newer instruments a half step up to help make flat keyed songs be written without the composer being questioned.
Seems legit
I think its just out of tune
Just imagine you are at a friends place or family members and you didn’t know they had this piano and they turned it on during the middle of the night just to scare you. 😶
I don’t know about you but I’d be horrified…and then I’d probably start dancing because I legitimately like this song. 😂
Creepy but cool
Simon 1 whats crappy
Your spelling
You don't need punctuation when there is only one sentence. It's used to mark out that "this is the end of the sentence and now there comes another sentence". In this case, my other comment only had one sentence and there is no need for punctuation. You can also see this in the title of the video. There is no "Next" sentence, so a dot is not needed.
(If this is misleading, don't blame me. Blame my cheap school)
that only makes it even cooler to me
Incredible maintenance to keep them working.
No. not at all! Just don't let them sit unused for months at a time. The more you play them with the roll the better they will play without any adjustment. I restore these amazing instruments and find that this is the case. Just like a car, leave it sitting for months at a time and the battery will be dead when you want to drive it. Same with player pianos, "use it or lose it" as they say.
Bottom d is broken :[
HJ55 HBA runs jack windross over playing this