Red Player Piano for Allentown Art Festival

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Uploaded by on Jun 23, 2008

This piano was donated to me so that I could play it at the Allentown Art Festival in Buffalo, NY on June 14-th and 15th for 8 hrs each day. When I got it it had been 'antiqued' white. It was quite dated and I decided to give it a fresh new look with 2 coats of industrial grade 'SAFETY RED' enamel and a gold paint pen. I'm playing 'If I Had a Talking Picture of You". Enjoy.

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  • Does it have a Gulbransen action?

  • No. It has a Simplex action. I've inspected this piano top to bottom and see no evidence of it being rebuilt, yet it plays near perfect and is the most airtight player I've yet encountered.

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  • Sounds nice. I always wondered what that tune sounds like.

  • Enhorabuena...!

    La presión de tu pianola es fantástica, increíble; tengo tres pianolas y en ninguna de ellas se pedalea con tanta tranquilidad como en la tuya.

    Felicitaciones,

    Rafael.

  • Thank you! My player-piano-on-YouTube tolerance is usually well under a minute, and you know why: poorly or never tuned, then either suckboxed or pumped so furiously that the hammers try to break strings. If a player sounds like a machine, it's not musical. I've an old book on properly playing players, and it suggests that if the roll mechanism's motor was electric or spring-wound, the reservoirs could be eliminated and pumping would more perfectly control experession.

  • If you observe how little pedal pumping is required to make this piano operate, my comment isn't all that odd. A player piano played manually that has leaky bellows, valves and tubing, requires three times the effort seen in this video. A "suck box" or vacuum pump usually compensates for excessive air leaks. THIS piano is the envy of a purist!

  • What an odd comment

  • great!!!!

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