QRS 4526 "Doin' The Racoon" Fox Trot

[Jcleveland5964]

great toon by J. fred coots. Got the Remick music . Great on piano and Theatre organ.

Dale A

[Fiftiesflashback]

The acid free type of tape that libraries and historic document restorers use is ideal for repairing the torn airholes and edges of worn piano rolls without damaging their historic value. QRS also sells repair tape. You can also have a blank piano roll cut to duplicate a rare vintage roll for playing and keep the original unaltered if a second copy is unavailable, much like copying a CD. QRS may offer this service, if not, there are collectors possessing the duplicating pianos needed.

[Turkeydoodlers]

One of my favorites

[KPO6859]

Fabulous!

[AAErikCO]

Glad to hear it :)

[AAErikCO]

It seems you love organ music from viewing your channel. I've always imagined this roll sounding particularly nice on a roll playing theater organ or fotoplayer.

[Ponz67]

How does the piano work, it looks interesting.

[AAErikCO]

That's hard to explain in 500 characters but a very generalized explanation is each hole activates a small pneumatic (a bellows) to activate that one note on the piano. This is the part for striking of the strings. There is another bellows system for the movement of the roll over the brass "tracker bar" that reads the piano roll, & a system to create suction to power the piano, which is a pair of pedals, that you pump like a bike. Later on around WW1 this pumping unit was an electrified unit.

[bearcub410]

thank you so much . i love the song and the era, love the sound of a player piano , i guess i am just a throw back lol . great stuff

[GoldenTaskin]

Fantastic rolls ! And someone who can actually play a pianola without just thumping out the notes too =p

[AAErikCO]

Hi,

Glad you like it. I'm going to be adding some more soon if I can get time.

On the second part of your comment, not sure if that was sarcasm, (meaning doesn't convey well in text), but I did actually express this roll, but the recording equipment isn't good enough to capture it. It's a desktop computer microphone.

In case that part was a compliment, thanks! lol

[hotsickle]

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[AAErikCO]

I feel blessed :)

[aknabea]

Wonderful, Thanks!!

[AAErikCO]

No problem! Glad you enjoyed it.

[Huckabeezer]

I'm very much looking forward to the next ones. Personally I could listen to this all day. I consider Cook to be a genius....his gift will keep living, and keep us living, forever hopefully. And I agree with Kawhack 100%.

[AAErikCO]

Not all Cooks produce flavorable results like J.L!

[Huckabeezer]

Of course, there was a huge amount of variability in the product during the heyday 1920s. Part of the fun here for me, no doubt yourself too, is picking up all these subtleties. Fortunately there's enough room for all of us! Wish I could do what you're doing for awhile...

[KawhackitaRag]

Fantastic roll! Having heard this and several other 1920's Cook rolls, I can't understand why certain purists/cranks (notably Douggie Henderson) knock J. Lawrence Cook rolls just because most of them weren't produced from actual hand-playing. So what? Most of them are really creative, swinging, and interesting, considering that Cook made about 10,000 rolls during a period of about 40 years of great change in American popular music, I think he did a pretty damn good job considering!

[AAErikCO]

Thank you for the kind comments. I'm going to be adding more 20's rolls soon. Indeed, Racoon Coats were an interesting phenomenon. Now what are Racoons? Road kill? LOL

[pm0501]

Love this tune.... I'll be looking for it! Makes me think of Ralph Kramden headed out to a Racoon Lodge meeting!

[pianolasociety]

Brilliant film, brilliant sound and a perfect pianola! Well done!