Back with another Zez Confrey original. This 1922 composition reflects Zez's gifted creative talents, not only with themes, but with integrating repeating key changes and chord manipulations into a seamless piece of music that compells you to listen to it.
Enjoy this performance. I focus on the roll itself here so one can not only read the words and sing (maybe) but see his manipulations as they cross the tracker.
This is a relatively obscure piece of music, but a great one, none the less...
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Thanks again for viewing !
@awardaudio Thank you sir. While the holes are automatic, the way they are presented and what one does when they cross the tracker is really up to the pianolist. Your Pianola has a wonderful piano to go with it, but you could put it up to any piano and you would have to "re-learn" how that piano responds with your Pianola.. no minor detail. My "pianola" is embedded, and I have had years to learn it's response. Appreciate your kind words and understanding.
Pianosyncrazy 11 months ago
What a great tune here! A lot of people watching these don’t realize that these rolls don’t actually play themselves and come out this way.
They require a great “Band Leader” behind the controls! It is very nice to hear piano roll music on a nice sounding instrument “played well” and recorded well!
awardaudio 11 months ago
@pgronemeier Ok, you got it... coming up in the next go around. Good to see you here.
Pianosyncrazy 1 year ago
Confrey was good/great...but my favorite roll of his..(I know this is gonna sound so apple pieish) but Sheik of Araby...took me a while to get the left hand down..
pgronemeier 1 year ago
@aknabea Yes, he was the master of the novelty piano music in my opinion, whether he was playing his own compositions, or someone else's. His ministrations were as complex as one gets, and I am not sure how many understand the difficulty in composing and playing such peices... but it sounds like you do.... I could only dream of being able to play anywhere close to this level. Thanks again!!!
Pianosyncrazy 1 year ago
Zezs was something when it came to his music. Just love it. Not easy to play by had either. Very Challenging!! Thanks for this wonderful roll video!
aknabea 1 year ago