Boogie Woogie on the Player Piano

How a piano roll is played on a 1927 Gulbransen player piano. There are actually better rolls to highlight how you can interact more with the piano to have a more realistic performance (tempo, volume, sustain, etc.), but this is a fun one!

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Music

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• player
• piano

[cbkidder]

barefoot? really? what are you Fred Flintstone? cutttt yourrrr nailllllls

[earlyflyer]

Hey, it was August when I recorded it...

[JamesPriceJohnson]

a air motor drives the spool box

(thing on bottom pulling roll) when the roll goes over the tracker bar(middle) a hole will pass. there are little holes on the tracker bar, ad the coresponding hole will open, allowing vacumm, and air will enter the bellow, thus going to the pneumatic. this air pressure moves the pneumatic, and it will push something up, pushin the hammer against the string. when the hole disappears, the sudden change brings the pushing thing away from the hammer. google it.

[besie0]

Pinetops boogie woogie :D

[thedarkone2134]

@beeroosterm Good question because mine is broke.

[beeroosterm]

Coolest player piano song I've ever heard. A friend of the family had one of these when I was a little boy and I never turned down the chance to use it if I was visiting. Who the hell would fix this thing if it broke? A mechanical wonder...

[snatchadams69]

Great but just not quite the.. boogie I'm looking for.....

[Aariannex]

So neat. Thanks for sharing.

[panchopitufo01]

wow, que buen ingeniero hizo eso, mis respetos

[UglySean]

QRS apparently stil makes player piano rolls. Gotta love this stuff. To quote Mr. Scott - "Keyboard... how quaint."

[spongebobslushpants1]

This is just too cool

[besie0]

@earlyflyer do you happen do know the name of this song? :D