Bye Bye Blackbird Duo Art pianola

the Pedal Electric Steck Duo-Art upright Pianola in the Pianola Museum Amsterdam playing "Bye-bye Blackbird" by R.Henderson. recorded by Tom Alter

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Music

Tags:

• Steck
• Duo-Art
• Pianola
• museum
• amsterdam
• piano
• upright
• Tom
• Alter
• Bye-bye
• Blackbird
• R.Henderson

[AeolianHall1]

I think the unusual fallboard decal is the style used on pianos in England. American pianos always say "Pianola Piano" or "Duo-Art Pianola" or just "Duo-Art" The fact that the fallboard says Pianola Piano and Duo Art makes me think the piano is English. Also, didn't all upright players have a key lock feature to help fast repetition?

[pianoman1984]

@AeolianHall1 Not all players have a key-lock mechanism, and on the English uprights (like on mine) the word 'duo-art' is on the wooden rail just above the keys, not on the fallboard. I still think it's all american, I'll ask next time when I visit there which should be in october.

[berntd]

@pianoman1984

Definetly American. I bet it is a Style37 as well. it is the export model. Expression box acc side has a 5th accordion pneumatic as well. I have seen and rebnuilt a few of these andI still have one here.

[pianoman1984]

@berntd

I didn't even notice the 5th accordion pneumatic.... how is it operated? by some sort of crash-valve principle?

[Turkeydoodlers]

geesh i can watch this play all day long, hope mine sounds this good when its done.

[pianoman1984]

me too ;-)

[jtjjbannie]

Voodoo! witchcraft!!! But I like it!

[todude100]

great video....thanks for showing all the working parts...

[filistro]

One can only be glad listening to that kind of music!

[james9149]

The 'expression' system is brilliant: basically a 4-bit digital to analogue converter. I wonder if this is the first use of the principle? Many years before the invention of pulse code modulation for electronic signals anyway!

[arburobill]

My roll of this fell to pieces!! - I've just bought a Steck 65/88 note player to restore, & i'm lucky enough to own a 1926Weber full Duo-Art upright. a great arrangement. Thanks!