US 42475 "My Best Girl" Fox Trot - Lee Sims piano roll

[RoyAMatson]

Erik

Many thanks for your reply to my comments. YouTube is a wonderful site, but as you remarked sometimes the fidelity is lacking! As a "pianolist" myself, my goal is always to effect a natural, "human" rendition, and 99% of the rolls I play on my Bush and Lane Cecilian are reproducing rolls, with the end tracker holes shut off. Thanks for your explanatory reply, AND for putting your piano and music on YouTube! Duplicating a 'hand played' performance is my goal too.

Roy Matson

[RoyAMatson]

I sincerely thank you for sharing your interests, which I share, on YouTube. I am often amazed at how many people don't realise that the EXPRESSION CONTROLS, and some sympathetic interpretation, can turn a mechanical soul-less bashing out of punched holes, into quite pleasant music. The Pianola mechanism you have is capable of SO MUCH more! My suggestion, listen and PRACTICE!! Maybe you'll get to Carnagie Hall, like the old sayint!! Best wishes.

RAM, piano snob.

[AAErikCO]

I'm quite capable of using the expression controls, and I do, including on this roll. And I realize the piano is capable of quite a bit of sound and expression variation, but my digital camera and computer stick microphone franky...arent. I'm putting a lot more dynamics into this than is able to be hear.d. The digital camera I made this with only pics up one volume...LOUD.

Thanks for viewing, please see some of my other videos that have better quality (better audio and video).

Erik

[Yaledmot]

@AAErikCO Absolutely correct. Automatic Level Control in the cameras make expression useless on U Toob. My Beckwith has very nice pneumatic expression controls but everything comes out of the camera at one loud level.

[coltello12]

Fantastic !!

[KPO6859]

Delightful post. Thank you!

[AAErikCO]

No problem, thanks for visiting!

[hotsickle]

:{) THE MUSTACHE WAS HERE

[AAErikCO]

You're always welcome here hotsickle :)

[hotsickle]

and Toto too ?

[AAErikCO]

And Toto too :)

[aknabea]

Good!!! Love it also!!  Please keep these wonderful old rolls rolling for us to hear also. This piano is one of the better examples of what was made in this era. Good quality!! I wish someone would write good music like this again. Sad to say that what we hear is not good anymore, and will not last like these old pieces do!!!!

[AAErikCO]

YouTube's character count says I gotta do this reply in two parts, so here goes..

Part 1 -

Yep, I agree completely with your post, I don't think in 200+ years rap and techno will be the next classical. In 200 years they will still be playing Beethoven, Chopin, and Bach, but I've always hoped that perhaps by then Ragtime, blues, and fox trots will reserve the same pillar among the 3 greats I listed and be held with some respect among the scholars.

[AAErikCO]

Reply Part 2 -

When I played Fowler's Hot Strut during a performance concert at my 'Classically aimed" university, I had them tappin' their feet, (in unfamiliar territory!), but I did it none the less; seems a lot of schools write off anything thats "contemporary"..

[AAErikCO]

Thank you for the comment! I'm glad you liked it. I find that these snappy US arrangements have a way of taking you back in time. The Stroud has a good player system, but the reservoir needs to be recovered. It only holds for around 20 seconds max. I've got my eye on some new cloth that will do around 45-1.5 minutes of suction hold.

[pianola6588]

You have discovered an exceptional example of what I consider  to be "the authentic player piano sound". Great footwork, too!