Spring Fever played by Rube Bloom (Duo-Art roll)
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- Опубликовано: 8 янв 2024
- Rube Bloom had a long and successful career as a songwriter, and in the 1920s composed a number of superb 'piano noveties'. This is his version of Spring Fever created for the Duo-Art, issued in October 1927. Aeolian described it as a 'special fox-trot' but it didn't sell well because instrumentals were out of favour at the time. This is a new peforation-acurate replica.
Played on my Weber model 12 grand Duo-Art pianola piano 
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A "hot piano" classic!
Wow! Excellent. I am very familiar with Spring Fever...Rube recorded it for the cheap Harmony record label (still acoustic recording) in 1926. The roll arrangers added some things (the runs at :10 and the octave glissandos at 1:29) and it looks like someone smoothed out the rhythm on the intro. Rube really syncopates those opening notes. Still great to hear.
It's had the treatment by Aeolian's roll-editing department - standardised to strict tempo for dancing, evened-up and perhaps tweaked in places. Not based on the same actual performance as the disc, and we don't know if Bloom played it the same every time.
Yes. All of the roll companies added things. Some song pluggers from the music publishing houses insisted that the melody be as obvious as possible to sell the song better. Usually Duo-Art and Ampico rolls are done in a less mechanical sounding way than say an Imperial or International roll would be.
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Great fun, played several times. Is it running a bit fast . Thanks for all the time and trouble in re-creating a unique roll.
Great roll! I heard it first on a Jonathan Adams video on his Steinway Duo-Art, I got hooked immediately.
I have no doubt that this roll was based off of a marking piano recording or some other realtime piano roll recording process and then only edited to conform to the roll master, I've seen very proficient pianists play stuff like this.
Most probably off Aeolian's recording piano that created a roll in real time (not a marking piano, which was a step-by-step process), then used as the basis for a strict tempo production stencil.
@@risingchads Oh right you did mention that they used a real time punching machine hooked up to the recording piano.
In any case, great to see a good recut of the roll, I might need to nab me a copy :D