1928~ Irvington Player PIano - Sweet Georgia Brown
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- The box for the role I think was for Mr. Cook, but a viewer pointed out that this is a Wendling roll. I stand corrected and quickly found a reference video. Repaired and reworked the vacuum system (which is way more evident in the recording than it is in real life) on this Artist Record player piano. Irvington pianos are part of the Story and Clark group.
My reference video is: • Sweet Georgia Brown Pl... The irvington is tuned flat so it will hold its tune longer. And it has.
As of 2024 the piano is still going strong. I did have to repair the regulator bellows but once I did that it was fine again.
Nice sounding old player! Thanks for the video!
@aknabea Thank you for your kind words. I was going to sell it, now, maybe not so much. I have 400+ odd rolls I have accumulated and so I think I will post more of the really interesting performances.
The camera freak inside me wants to know what on earth this awesome old video camera was xD
Panasonic AG-HMC40P Camcorder using a Rhode SVM hot shoe mounted microphone. About 2018-2019 I went to the DVX 200 with modified Oktava 012 condensers on many recordings for size and sound quality (after mods). A few videos I used my CAD E100s which I would set up on mike stands. I added the external XLR mike adapter to the camera and used it for mikes as well as from mixing boards. Here the keyboard is piped into the mixer which is why we have headphones and the room is silent for the tuba's mike - a CAD E100 you can see in the foreground. ua-cam.com/video/A5dhCj1KGrs/v-deo.html
@@steamboat75043 Cool! Thanks for the info!
I'm a hobbyist when it comes to audio engineering and stuff like that but I do try to get as much info as I can on recording equipment whether I'll get it or not. Someday I'll probably nab one of those!
@@PiotrBarcz i would look at the higher end canon 4k consumer cameras. As long as it has the red 1/8" stereo jack you will be able to put sound in the the camera. The DVX200 is dated but if you look at my slingers or all the community band stuff it in action in various light levels. My latest tuba demo was done with the oktavas/dvx 200. it does a better job that what can be uploaded to youtube so good enough. I shoot various pro jobs with the dvx and a few have been contest winners so its not just the camera but the knowledge of post processing to make things sound right and look right. There are some vids that I mixed years ago before I had studio monitors on my computer and the sound is embarrassing because the high end computer speakers were not flat in their response between low and high volume. I bought used mackie 624s and then the audio content improved. In various mixing situations you can get all kinds of odd sound artifacts like comb filters due to resonances. In the older pocket sandwich theatre I had only one spot for the camera up in the corner surrounded by 3 sides of wooden paneling. In that case I finally defeated that effect by creating mike mounts out of pvc pipe filled with acoustic batting eliminating all sound reflections. It took a while to figure that out. The mikes rest in the batting eliminating any sound from the wooden flooring from people walking around as well. I could mix on headphones but that's a different sound entirely. I have used a number of audio filters unheard of when I started. Taking a noise print for an inversion layer drops SN ratio about 15 db. And I have used tools like audio spectral layers to correct distortion from wagnerian sopranos or to eliminate other sound artifacts that are not part of the performance. Each of these tools allows for an inversion of a given sound and does not affect the quality of the performance. I never edit competition vids other than for brightness and maybe color induced overtones. It the 2023 meyerson with the community band I didn't use a deep enough neutral density filter and people were washed out from the spotlights. Goes on and on. I hope that information helps you with your video productions.
@@steamboat75043 Yeah I have a Canon XA-10 which is a 2000 dollar camcorder from 2010 but has video quality that beats most modern cameras these days. It has dual XLR inputs too so I can plug in my Behringer C2 pencil condensers straight into it. It also has the 8th inch line input so I can take direct (but very noisy) input from keyboards and other stuff.
I just like the old look of video from the cameras that have the slightly sepia washed colors and the slight haloing. You can't get the same effect in post, that's for sure.
4K is overkill for me for the most part, file sizes are too big, I don't have a 4K monitor etc. xD
@@PiotrBarcz canon xa-10 will always be good. if it looked good then it will look good now. And if you are going to do 4k video you need a powerful computer with a lot of memory and drive space. I look at it in terms of archival of what I was doing and my legacy. But I am much closer to the end of my rope than you are. Cell phones do a decent job and eliminated just about everything but pro-sumer cameras. I did HD on an i5 machine for years, but with the DVX I went to a threadripper 2017 top of the line processor and spent big time for it. You can get a standard cheapo 4k tv at walmart and use it as a 4k monitor. I spent a lot on the one I am using but now they are kind of cheap (and disposable) and get as big as your desk will hold. I am overdue for a computer upgrade but loathe windows 11. I was in the software trade for decades and I just see change for change's sake. Plus on my old stuff I don't have to create an email account which I will never use (and normally has an obscenity in it). I have used kodak zi8 hd cameras for stuff and with a mike input jack - not bad results either for their era. I used them as inset cameras for a fellow organist. This is the Arnstein Organ Company (me) Opus 7. It uses a system called hauptwerk which allows a midi keyboard and a PC to become a pipe organ. ua-cam.com/video/GO4oRzmqdsE/v-deo.html
I believe this is as played by Pete Wendling, not Cook. Great piano!
could be, but the roll had Mr. Cook's name on it. I should have put the roll number on it though which I believe is 8465. But I could be wrong. The piano now lives just north of Austin Texas and plays as well as it did 8 years ago. And that's not to say someone could have swapped rolls in the box thinking one interpretation was the other.
@@steamboat75043 Yeah, that's the wrong number, this is a 3000 series roll by Wendling. Cook did record a Georgia Medley which was also split up into a few rolls.
correct. good ear. swapped boxes. I found a reference recording: ua-cam.com/video/wQMsMD30DIk/v-deo.html
@@steamboat75043 It's a great roll, both of them are! That Stroud is also really nice that Arvind has.
@@PiotrBarcz sorry, I didn't reply to you: correct. good ear. swapped boxes. I found a reference recording: ua-cam.com/video/wQMsMD30DIk/v-deo.html I updated the comments. Thank you for your help.
What’s the upright next to it?
The piano was a Janssen (i think) that came from a neighbor who had stored the piano in his garage for a number of years. It had a welte mingon player in it. Unfortunately a number of years through texas winters and worse summers, had worked its 'magic' on that piano. I would have been thousands to repair the action in time and parts. I didn't really get any action out of the player and decided to break the piano for parts. The player mechanism went to a rebuilder of players and pianos. The rest of the instrument was used for a number of projects. The last player I had (other than the Baldwin SF which sports an updated pianocorder that I have to this day) was a Hardman duo I rescued that only had been outside (literally) in light rain for a couple of days. Amazingly enough the Hardman Duo was a very well built instrument and it had a modern player mechanism. After repairs and regulation you can see it play on this channel. The market for real player pianos, or at least console ones, or pianos in general is practically nothing. The piano price was reduced quite a bit before it sold to a musician who was overjoyed to have it. I helped them move the piano so it would not be destroyed or damaged by well meaning assistants.
Btw, what you really need is a Decap Robot Band that includes a Robot with a Player Accordion.... :P Check this out: ua-cam.com/video/rJMTMrSBN8I/v-deo.html (we are out of business!!!)