Mason & Hamlin AMPICO plays Liebesfreud Kreisler-Rachmaninof

[kerryincolumbus]

You have enough money to buy a beautiful piano like that, but, can't afford to have the damn thing tuned?? for CHRIST's sake it sounds HORRIBLE! take these postings down, get the damn thing tuned and repost them again, this time with a TUNED piano!

[kawaimaster]

Can't hear any Perflex in this one!!! Rocky, Hickmann and Stoddard finally stopped rolling over in their graves eh?!?!

Stunning performance, more please!

[klavigen]

ein wundervoller KLaviersatz der guten Launa vielen dank für das Reinstellen

[stienwayz]

Wonderful!!! Thanks for the Rachy upload =)

[robotnik77]

Kreisler also plays his own piano transcriptionof this and 'Caprice Viennoise' on Ampico. A lot of people don't know that Kreisler & Heifetz were excellent pianists as well as virtuoso violinists. I have one of Kreisler's Ampico rolls, but no player. Playing piano rolls on YouTube is a GREAT idea. Thanks.

[AmpicoGPM]

Thanks for posting all these Ampico rolls, wonderful sounding piano with great expression.....this Rachmaninoff roll is one of my favorites.

[snaaptaker]

Nicely done; and better dynamic shading than on BM's clip. Maybe that was more BM's fault than AMPICO's, but I hate to believe that. However, nobody's perfect.

[ampicob]

Thanks! Don't know what you mean about "a bit different", is it the tone of the piano or the expressions? Listen to the Liebesfreud posted by Christian6657 which is Rachmaninoff playing, probably from a CD of his AMPICO rolls. The expression sounds the same in every section of the roll, although the tone of the piano is different because of the difference in character (and size probably) of the piano. Let me know.

[iblskeith]

Very nice. The same roll sounds quite a bit different when I play it on my Knabe Ampico.

[ampicob]

The great Rachmaninoff's playing captured on the AMPICO reproducing piano. After hearing one of his recordings, he stated "Gentlemen, I have just heard myself playing".