Popper Orchestrion Happy Jazzband Piano plays 'Wien bleibt Wien' March

Another well-known march, this time 'Wien bleibt Wien', composed by Johann Schrammel in the late 1800s, often translated as 'Vienna Forever', or literally translated as 'Vienna remains Vienna', is played here on a 1920s-vintage Hugo Popper 'Happy Jazzband' Orchestrion Welt-Piano Konzertist, made in Leipzig, Germany.
They were created by adding a 'jazz band percussion effect' top cabinet to a Welt coin piano model. The instrument plays music from 88 note or 88 hole rolls, of an identical size to Arburo rolls, and in addition to the piano, has percussion and trap effects such as muted cymbal, snare drum, triangle and wood block.

Part of what makes these Popper Orchestrions outstanding is the attention to detail of ensuring the percussion effects are expressive - that is for example, rather than a simple pneumatic beating a drum, the beater has its distance from the drum altered continuously according to holes in the roll, by means of a separate expression pneumatic. The resulting music is therefore very much less mechanical than in some other orchestrions.

The trackerbar's 88 holes are allocated on this particular instrument as follows:

1 - Bass Drum & Cymbal (soft - small pneumatic)
2 - Bass Drum & Cymbal (medium - large pneumatic)
(for 'loud' both above holes play)
3 - unused
4 - Tympani
5 - Tympani
6 - Triangle
7 - Piano Soft: bass drum & cymbal dampers
8 - Piano Loud
9 - Mandolin On
10 - Mandolin Off
11-39 Playing Notes C-E
40 - Snare Drum: reiterating
41 - Piano Treble Off
42 - Piano Treble On
43 - unused
44 - Crash Cymbal
45 - Shutoff
46 - Rewind
47 - unused
48 - unused
49 - Snare Drum, Cymbal and Wood Block soft
50-78 Playing Notes F-A
79 - Sustain Pedal
80 - unused
81 - Wood Block
82 - unused
83 - unused
84 - unused
85 - unused
86 - unused
87 - unused
88 - unused

(holes 82-88 are for pipes and bells, not present on this model)

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• poppers
• orchestrion
• happy
• jazzband
• welt
• piano
• konzertist
• hugo
• nickelodeon
• roll
• trackerbar
• wien
• bleibt
• johann
• schrammel
• austria
• march
• vienna

[nickn5nl]

@oldbear52 Thanks, you're most welcome! :)

[oldbear52]

Very bright sounding machine!!!

Thanks Nick!!!