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2 months ago

Bert Lown's Orch. - Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone

BERT LOWN led superior jazz-oriented dance band during 1929-33. As a violinist he worked for a time in the 1920's as a

sideman, he collaborated w...

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4 months ago

Ampico - Love Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere

1926 Chickering Model 59

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6 months ago

fratig3's webcam video June 18, 2011 01:03 PM

My 1920's 5'6" Baldwin Grand with a Welte player unit playing "Caberet."

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knabchic commented:

Why aren't you actually playing a Welte roll on this piano? The roll you are playing is for an 88-note player piano.
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7 months ago

Ampico B Reproducing Piano playing Armistice Day by Adam Carroll. WWI songs, Long way to tipperary.

1930 Knabe Ampico B reproducing piano playing a roll by Adam Carroll called Armistice day, WWI Recollections. This piano is completely unrestored ...

mechmusicman • 294 views

knabchic commented:

Wow! If it sounds this good in original condition, imagine it with new strings, hammers, etc. Thanks for posting!
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9 months ago

Welte Mignon - You're The Cream In My Coffee - Lutter

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9 months ago

Anitra's Dance, A 1924 Fox Trot played by Fairchild and Carroll on Ampico

This August 1924 Ampico piano roll # 63393-F is a fox trot dance arrangement of melodies from Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite, mostly based on "Anitra's Da...

bartolomochristofari • 265 views

knabchic commented:

This piano almost sounds like you have a mandolin rail. You really need to soften those hammers! All golden age Knabe scales require soft hammers to achieve the "old brandy" tone they became famous for. You are losing all of this piano's warm, rich harmonics.
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9 months ago

Victor Victrola 8-35 Paul Whitman - Precious Fox Trot

1928 Victrola 8-35 Orthophonic Machine. Playing Paul Whitman & His Orch. #20139A Precious. Enjoy!

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knabchic commented:

I wish people who put clips of Orthophonics playing would just shut the darn lid! You can always hear that infernal hiss when it is left open. Nice machine though!
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11 months ago

Orthophonic Victrola - When You're Counting the Stars Alone - Edison Needle Type Electric 14072

California Ramblers, recorded 9/13/29 as played on 1925 Orthophonic Victrola COLONY

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knabchic commented:

LOVE these Edison needle electric records! We just got our C-4 up and running, so it's fun to play them on the machines they were made for. (I just wish people would close the lid on the Orthophonics once the record starts though. That infernal hiss from the reproducer really comes through in the...
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11 months ago

Knabe Ampico-Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

1926 5'3 Knabe Ampico A playing "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from "Showboat"

I was playing with the new camcorder. This is recorded using the penci...

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  @aardvaark069 It's an older Keystone recut. I know what you are saying about the Knabe tone, and I have to agree. I ventured into this hobby without preconceptions, and ended up favoring the Knabe after listening to many reproducing pianos. We also have a 5'4 Chickering Ampico in the same room as...
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1 year ago

DEANNA DURBIN 1937

CHECK THIS OUT!

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1 year ago

Irene Dunne - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Irene Dunne performs Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. From the 1935 film adaptation of the original Broadway play for which the song was written.

At aroun...

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1 year ago

DEANNA DURBIN - "NESSUN DORMA" from "Turandot"

Deanna Durbin delivers a stunning rendition of "Nessun Dorma" from Puccini's opera, "Turandot". This is the only time I have ever heard a female si...

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1 year ago

Knabe Ampico - Chenoweth Nocturne #69733

1926 5'3 Knabe Ampico A. One of our favorite Ampico rolls of all, this nocturne, Ampico Roll #69733 composed and played by Wilbur Chenoweth, never ...

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  I've re-uploaded this video twice (sorry to those whose comments I have lost), and both times YouTube has some compatibility issue with the initial fade in. I guess it will have to stay as-is. This video was recorded with a single, hot shoe microphone mounted on the camera, rather than the built-...
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1 year ago

Orthophonic Victrola - Pretty Little You - Edison Needle Type Electric 14072

California Ramblers (from "Son of the Gods") recorded 9/13/29 as played on 1928 Orthophonic Victrola FOUR-TWENTY

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knabchic commented:

Very true. I did, however, just buy a needle electric that looks like it was virtually never played (a 12" classical one), and WOW!
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1 year ago

Bush & Lane Vid.AVI @ D.C. Piano Co. in Berkeley

Dennis plays a Bush & Lane Upright at D.C. Piano Co. in Berkeley, Ca.

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knabchic commented:

This style Bush & Lane was called the "Pompeiian"
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1 year ago

Annette Hanshaw - I Wanna Be Loved By You (1929)

Annette Hanshaw (October 18, 1901 - March 13, 1985) was one of the first great female jazz singers. In the late 1920s she ranked alongside Ethel Wa...

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knabchic commented:

@edmundusrex Yes, we have the Helen Kane version of "I Wanna Be Loved By You," and this is definitely a little different.
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1 year ago

Chico playing the Piano - The Marx Brothers: Monkey Business (1931)

Playing renditions of "Pizzicata" (Léo Delibes) and "When I Take My Sugar to Tea" (Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal and Pierre Norman)

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  knabchic commented:
  
  And on a Knabe concert grand no less! Wonderful!

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