Player Piano playing Twist using our old vacuum cleaner instead of the pedals

This is our old player piano playing Twist using our vacuum cleaner for power instead of the pedals. The sound gets a little out of sync at the end for some reason. Being a little out of tune helps give it a little more of that honkey tonk sound. We have the piano, 160 rolls of music and the vacuum up on Craigslist for $695 right now.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Music
• Player
• Piano
• Twist

[vonnieglen]

It was an old cannister vacuum which was very quiet to begin with and I put an extra section of plastic tubing on the exhaust port to quiet it down further.

[Zylstra555]

A normal vacuum may be too powerful for a player piano. It is not advisable, and could cause serious damage.

[vonnieglen]

@Zylstra555 Yes, I should have showed the hook up a little more closely. The tube going to the piano has a large opening in one side partially covered with a piece of sheet metal that can be slid back and forth to vary the amount of suction.

[JamesPriceJohnson]

what did you hook the vaccum cleaner hose up to inside th epiano?

[vonnieglen]

@JamesPriceJohnson, The suction tube coming into the top of the bellows on the left side of the piano. Because of the way the valves are set up, it still has to be rewound using the foot pedals, which is better anyway because most of the rolls are nearly 100 years old and need to be handled with care.

[StanHywet]

What type of vacuum did you use? It's quite. I have a normal vacuum hooked up to mine and it's loud and too much suction.

[gallagher123123]

I wish i had a player piano. Would you sell it to me?