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. @@risingchads
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
@PiotrBarcz Very surprised that you did not comment on the very wrong tempo this roll was played. It sound a horrible mess. Adam Swanson plays it to perfection. So many roll uploads played too fast.
@TheBill3333 Nearly everyone on RUclips who post their player rolls get the tempo wrong. I have a Mastertouch roll with this tune as part of a medley. This is way too fast. At a slower pace it is a delight. Winifred Attwell started this craze for speed when she recorded Black and White Rag. Technically brilliant perhaps, but musically, much is lost. This roll sounds like a hot mess! Just listen to the actual record rather than the roll and you get the real deal.
@@risingchads Yeah, I thought so xD I've seen the same thing in your other videos, even ones from the same session have an old purplish hue to the paper. Makes it look pretty neat either way :D
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.
@@risingchads
A "hot piano" classic!
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
@PiotrBarcz Very surprised that you did not comment on the very wrong tempo this roll was played. It sound a horrible mess. Adam Swanson plays it to perfection. So many roll uploads played too fast.
@@jeffrey3895 I'm surprised you didn't read the title my friend. This is Rube Bloom's own roll!
@@PiotrBarcz I am well aware that it is Rube Bloom's own roll. What has that to do with some clown setting the tempo way to fast?
Great fun, played several times. Is it running a bit fast . Thanks for all the time and trouble in re-creating a unique roll.
@TheBill3333 Nearly everyone on RUclips who post their player rolls get the tempo wrong. I have a Mastertouch roll with this tune as part of a medley. This is way too fast. At a slower pace it is a delight. Winifred Attwell started this craze for speed when she recorded Black and White Rag. Technically brilliant perhaps, but musically, much is lost. This roll sounds like a hot mess! Just listen to the actual record rather than the roll and you get the real deal.
Is this purple paper?
No, white kraft, the look's a camera artefact
@@risingchads Yeah, I thought so xD I've seen the same thing in your other videos, even ones from the same session have an old purplish hue to the paper.
Makes it look pretty neat either way :D