Lori's 1910-1919? Player Piano performing "A Taste of Honey"

Here is a little vid I took on my Treo 700 showing off my fully-restored player piano. Sadly the sound content is pretty deplorable, and doesn't even begin to capture the glorious sound of this phenomenal instrument -- so I apologize for that! But I think you'll still find this amusing. Not too bad for a piano nearly 100 years old! I decided to record this because these pianos are becoming more and more rare and most of my friends have never even seen one -- let alone a working one! This is the first song I ever heard played on this piano (before I owned it) and once I heard it I knew I had to OWN this beauty!!! Enjoy!!

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• Lori
• Darlin'
• piano
• player
• antique

[loridarlin]

I don't think it would be a very good idea to send my antique roll to someone I don't even know. I'd rather get my piano fixed, but it is hard to find people who know how to fix these.

[loridarlin]

No ... it isn't a Taste of Honey ... I got this mixed up with a different vid I took. No. I'm am sorry I cannot fix the sound. The piano sounds great in real life, but right now the piano is broken ... so this is all there is. Sorry.

[Huckabeezer]

This is actually a tune called "Sally Lou." Probably the most famous version was played by Ferd Grofe, an old time roll arranger and top pianiist. But from what I can hear, this may be a different or better version, which would be an important discovery.. Perhaps you could send your roll to someone with a working piano? 

[KawhackitaRag]

That's a really snappy roll! Excellent!

Please post another video of it with better audio quality. The picture doesn't have to be better, but the sound REALLY matters.

Thanx.

P.S. I don't think this is "A Taste of Honey", which is by the Tiajuana Brass and is a 1960s tune. This roll in your video is a great 1920s tune that I don't recognize.

[Huckabeezer]

Could you please possibly fix this? It's a wonderful roll, unique in fact, and many of us fanciers would love to hear it better. It's not at all that hard to redo this.

[pianoman1984]

a tip to record piano music with a handycam/photocamera is placing the camera at some distance from the piano and taping a piece of piano felt or player piano leather over it's microphone to dampen the sound.... I did this in my video of the roll 'Moya Maruschka'