Wish I Was In Dixie on Player Piano

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  • Опубликовано: 29 дек 2024

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  • @MikeTheAngel
    @MikeTheAngel 11 месяцев назад +43

    You can tell the Ghost misses Dixie very much…

  • @everythinghistory6770
    @everythinghistory6770 3 года назад +590

    The ghost of a Confederate soldier was playing this

    • @genxspawn9223
      @genxspawn9223 2 года назад +63

      Lee himself was playing this

    • @therandompole0000
      @therandompole0000 2 года назад +19

      The unions reason for war was playing this… oh wait nothing is playing it 🤦‍♂️

    • @vietcong8451
      @vietcong8451 2 года назад +5

      @@therandompole0000 It was to preserve it

    • @therandompole0000
      @therandompole0000 2 года назад +1

      @@vietcong8451 _-_-_

    • @BODANIELS454
      @BODANIELS454 2 года назад +7

      Exactly what I was going to say

  • @liasmith9286
    @liasmith9286 Год назад +58

    how can you not smile hearing this

  • @seantig479
    @seantig479 Год назад +51

    I never tire of hearing Dixie. This is an especially good rendition! Thanks for making it available.

  • @lawfpv
    @lawfpv Год назад +23

    It's amazing how a sound like this instantly takes you back to the early 1900s. It must have been so cool seeing these kinds of technologies for the first time, really changing the face of the modern world,.

    • @Dannysoutherner
      @Dannysoutherner 8 месяцев назад

      All digital but a very early form, like old paper tape software.

  • @CathyCorriher-jb1ot
    @CathyCorriher-jb1ot 11 месяцев назад +8

    So nice to hear this well played, respected, and made available for us Southerners to hear. Thanks!

  • @Dannysoutherner
    @Dannysoutherner 8 месяцев назад +10

    Omg that player piano is amazing!

  • @Banjo362
    @Banjo362 2 года назад +91

    The Glory Days when music was fun.

  • @tomklinar8848
    @tomklinar8848 2 года назад +78

    I have the same piano, bought it new back in 86 ! Sounds good......

    • @luisfeliperamosparada6884
      @luisfeliperamosparada6884 2 года назад +4

      What is the name of the Brand and the model?

    • @aaronb5060
      @aaronb5060 Год назад +4

      @@luisfeliperamosparada6884 Aeolian Cabaret

    • @luisfeliperamosparada6884
      @luisfeliperamosparada6884 Год назад +2

      @@aaronb5060 thank you sir

    • @princesshannahbanana2090
      @princesshannahbanana2090 Год назад +1

      1886 or 1986? 😂

    • @andrewbarrett1537
      @andrewbarrett1537 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@princesshannahbanana2090 Built in player pianos mostly weren't even a thing in the USA in 1886, despite what some Western movies might have you believe, and the earliest ones were all-mechanical, and not pneumatic like most surviving roll-operated player pianos.
      The first commercially-marketed built-in roll-operated player pianos I know about in the USA were marketed by the rival Automaton Piano Co. of New York and the Adek Piano Co. also of NY (I *think*).
      The former firm (Automaton) apparently either made new player systems using rolls on the Ludwig Hupfeld Co. (of Germany) patents and roll scales OR imported entire player mechanisms from Germany to install into US-made pianos (we're not sure which).
      The latter company (Adek) apparently made new mechanisms themselves of a very similar design, but with incompatible rolls (which were mostly arranged by their own staff under direction of William Hartman),
      which were marketed (the player systems and rolls) under the "Pianotist" and "Nicklin' " brand names.
      These really early systems were marketed from sometime in the late 1880s (1888?) until about 1905 or so, when they were generally considered obsolete in those days, and I think one or both companies went out of business at that time.
      These systems are almost never seen outside of museums,
      and are more prevalent in Europe
      (the Hupfeld system MADE by Hupfeld, installed chiefly in Stransky Freres brand pianos, but maybe some others),
      than in the USA.
      The American ones were installed mainly in Blasius pianos (by the Automaton Co.) or Hunter brand pianos (by Adek), BUT other makes of piano were also used, since this system could also be custom-installed by their factory as a retrofit into any upright of then-recent vintage.
      So a handful have been seen in (for example) Steinway, Mehlin, Hallet & Davis, and some other USA makes of upright piano. It seems unlikely these companies had any direct licensing arrangement with the three listed prestigious firms; most likely, the original owners of those pianos had them sent directly to the Automaton and/or Adek factories to have the player system retrofitted, either shortly after purchase (brand new piano) or a few years after purchase (slightly used piano).
      However, when the companies went out of business, and new music was no longer available on these rolls, nor parts & service, quite a lot of these systems were sadly removed from their pianos and discarded, over the past 100 years.
      This is particularly so in the USA (more of the European-sold ones in European pianos seem to have survived, maybe two or three dozen).
      Of the USA-made pianos still with these systems, I have only been able to document about 5 or 6 survivors today,
      of which I own one (an Automaton system installed in a Blasius piano).
      These systems are neat because they use a spinning "power roller" which is about 4' long and cast iron covered with a layer of cloth.
      The roller is spun at a fairly high speed by a couple of bevel gears when power is applied to the system (either hand-cranking, or an external power source such as a Stirling engine, water motor, or electric motor), and the power train also drives the take-up spool for the music roll.
      The roll in these early systems is heavy manila/cardboard, and is pulled thru a mechanical keyframe very much like that found on slightly-later fairground organs. The entire roll mech is located in a drawer underneath the piano keyboard, which pulls out on slides/tracks to change the roll. Rather than operating tiny pneumatic valves like in the more familiar fairground organs (Gavioli etc), the keyframe keys are mechanically linked (via round-steel links running in felt bushings, exactly like an octave coupler in a reed organ), to wooden 'anchor shoes' for each note, which are articulated wooden levers poised above the power roller, the lower part of which is shaped like an anchor and covered in felt.
      When a hole comes up in the roll, the key popping thru the hole triggers the anchor shoe to drop onto the roller, where it is kicked out with some force, which, via additional linkage, pushes up a pushrod in the back which plays the back of the piano key. Thus this uses an all-mechanical system of power amplification to play the piano.
      This entire player mechanism is built into the lower front panel of the piano (aka the knee board or knee panel, above the piano pedals but below the piano keyboard), and comes out all in one piece. It is fairly heavy (I think mine weighs over 200 lbs, although I haven't put it on a scale), and I can understand why many were discarded, but it is a really neat piece of engineering and utterly fascinating to watch in action.
      The player piano shown in the video above uses a regular suction pneumatic system. This system was used for player reed organs in first a crude 'paper as a valve' system in the 1870s-1880s, and then by the 1880s they had refined it to use an intermediate pouch (leather disc) and valve, to admit air to the reed, to make for a snappier action, and allow more notes to be crammed onto a smaller width roll (instead of the roll holes having to be enormous- around 1/2" wide - to admit air directly to the reeds as in the earlier type). These tabletop "organettes" using this system were very popular home entertainment devices in the 1880s-1890s. Their larger siblings, player reed organs, were the transitional instruments which connected the organette paper-roll technology with the later piano players and player pianos.
      The first commercially-marketed pneumatic paper roll player pianos and piano players I know about in the USA were the Angelus (introduced by Wilcox & White of Meriden, CT in 1895) and the Pianola (introduced by the Aeolian Co of Garwood, NJ in 1897). Both were very successful in their day, with the Aeolian eventually becoming one of the most successful player pianos of all time, with their "Pianola" trademark becoming generic slang for an automatic piano in many English-speaking countries outside the USA. Most early pneumatic players made in the USA 1895-1910 were of the external "push up piano player" aka "vorsetzer" variety.
      Relatively few built-in player pianos were made in the USA in this early period, and most of those used early thin paper roll types like various 58-note or 65-note scales (only really Melville Clark had a full 88-note piano roll scale before 1908, although those rolls are over 15" wide).
      These were a cabinet which could be rolled up to the keyboard of an ordinary piano and play it via the keyboard, using rolls. Since most middle class and upper class folks already had a piano they loved (on which they were making payments) at that time, this apparatus made more sense for early buyers.
      By about 1910-1912, furniture styles had changed enough, and many preexisting pianos were old enough, that it made sense for folks to trade in their older piano (and piano player) for a new built-in player piano. The big player piano boom really hit around 1919-1927 when the doughboys were coming back from WWI and wanted to buy home entertainment devices to liven up the place. During this period of prosperity, around 300,000 pianos per year were made and sold in the USA of all types combined by all makers combined. Around this time, about 2/3 of those were player pianos.
      This boom mostly ended around 1927 when amplified broadcast radio sets and amplified phonographs became a commercial reality.
      In terms of coin op player pianos, the first really commercially successful USA one was the Wurlitzer Tonophone, which used a 10-tune pinned wooden cylinder to actuate a suction pneumatic system (via a conventional keyframe) to play the piano. This instrument was introduced in 1899 and built thru maybe 1906 or so. It is thought that over 1,000 were built, with only a dozen or so known to survive today.
      Thin paper roll commercial instruments were experimented with in the 1890s / early 1900s, but the first truly commercially successful one was the Peerless D, introduced in 1902. This used a 5-tune endless paper roll located in a bin in the back of the piano. These pianos were also wildly successful and were made at least as late as 1908 if not slightly later (the company lasted until 1915, by then making more up-to-date models).
      Shortly after the Peerless D, there was kind of a stampede for other companies to introduce coin pianos, which they mostly did from 1904 to 1913 or so. By 1913, just about every USA coin piano roll type (save a few) had been introduced, and for the earlier ones, there was already a pretty good library of tunes available, although originals of all these rolls are rare today and real collectors' items.
      The coin piano business took a huge hit between WWI and Prohibition, with many companies going out of business in the mid to late 'teens. However, during early Prohibition, with the rise of speakeasies, ironically the market came roaring back for small cabinet type instruments, which were very much in fashion in the 20s, until jukeboxes and the Depression killed the market for them.
      This instrument in the video is an "Aeolian" (Memphis, TN) player piano, made probably in the 1970s or 80s. There was a big player piano revival which started in the late 1950s/early 1960s (the Modern Aeolian firm lasted 1960-1985, which nicely bookends the greatest period of the fad), and several newer companies sprung up to meet demand for new instruments, including this one. Some (like this one) even revived old brand names for new unrelated instruments.
      There is still a player piano revival today, just not as big as it was decades ago.

  • @Alaska_567
    @Alaska_567 3 года назад +179

    This really gets to me... Beautiful!

    • @Trey_816
      @Trey_816 2 года назад +6

      How'd you get the nickname of Stonewall, Stonewall? Is it because you look like you ran face first into a stone wall?
      (That's a joke, no offense intended)

    • @keko6473
      @keko6473 Год назад +2

      what in the fuck

    • @lucas_boundrobloxvids7804
      @lucas_boundrobloxvids7804 Год назад

      oversimplified@@Trey_816

  • @MilesProwerStudios78
    @MilesProwerStudios78 Год назад +21

    As a person from Dixie, I give this video a 10/10.

  • @cosmicsniper6473
    @cosmicsniper6473 3 года назад +40

    Ye old' mans home stereo system.

  • @TheBeforeMentionedHistorian
    @TheBeforeMentionedHistorian 2 года назад +25

    the ghost of Lee

  • @valdaitis
    @valdaitis 8 месяцев назад +5

    Great song. South is alive! ❤ from Russia

  • @spachi9520
    @spachi9520 3 года назад +33

    Ghost piano.... nice video

    • @boogin222
      @boogin222  3 года назад +7

      Thx!

    • @spachi9520
      @spachi9520 3 года назад +4

      @@boogin222 welcome pog

    • @fanwtn5124
      @fanwtn5124 2 года назад +2

      Confederate soldier

    • @spachi9520
      @spachi9520 2 года назад

      @@fanwtn5124 ong no cap

    • @the-letter_s
      @the-letter_s Год назад +1

      @@spachi9520 fr fr tho no cap that poltergeist was bussin

  • @amywood4978
    @amywood4978 Год назад +13

    Love this , beautiful piano

  • @erichbower9659
    @erichbower9659 Год назад +8

    Wish I had a piano. Just like this one! 😏 🎹

  • @ronaldmcdonald8303
    @ronaldmcdonald8303 Год назад +6

    Just goes to show just because something is old doesn't mean it sucks! I used to own an old PC from 1993 that hade some old classics on it, but my dad threw it away in 2001 because it was "old!" I went berserk!!!!

  • @joshuafuchs180
    @joshuafuchs180 8 месяцев назад +4

    I’ll die for Dixie

  • @soupdrinker
    @soupdrinker 2 года назад +12

    I like this arrangement and piano tone

  • @Quentiny_
    @Quentiny_ Год назад +5

    I really admire this old technique!

  • @stonewalljackson7590
    @stonewalljackson7590 3 года назад +37

    Great Uplifting Song! It needs to be played more often everywhere.

  • @vacexpert2020
    @vacexpert2020 3 года назад +16

    Considering doing the Pianomation mod on a 1967 Baldwin upright, reason being our congregation needs both the piano and the organ and my baby, a 1964 Hammond A-105, one of the last made before they replaced felt with adhesive that became acidic with age and destroyed the contacts and wiring under the keys, just can't keep up because the overhead speaker cabinets are installed backwards because the sound engineer who installed them in 1967 along with the original organ, a circa 1967 Baldwin 44 from the looks of it, decided to install them backwards and design a sound deflector for the choir when the monitor speaker was adequately loud for the choir, I would get them corrected but that would involve heavy machinery as these are the biggest speaker cabinets I've seen, bigger than Allen cabinets by a good margin, I'd scan the week's hymns into a midi program if they haven't already been and tweak the program to match our unique style, then it's just one button press and after the lead in the organ joins with the classic tone that's been passed down within the church since the installation of the Hammond in 1998 after the Baldwin up and died in a spectacular fashion during service, guy who bought it put all new capacitors in it and how that Baldwin is being used at our identical twin church that is a town over but was designed and built by the same people shortly after our church was built using the same blueprints and architectural drawings,

  • @amywood4978
    @amywood4978 Год назад +4

    Love this player piano

  • @Беспроводныенаушники-п8ч

    Masterpiece!

  • @TheAnimatedLegendaryCoyote2008
    @TheAnimatedLegendaryCoyote2008 2 года назад +10

    This Reminds Me Of The Wild West Of The Bar

  • @brasileirocomum9576
    @brasileirocomum9576 2 года назад +3

    Incredible! Hughes from Brazil

  • @lobby596
    @lobby596 3 года назад +60

    When you build you're house next to the Marietta Confederate Cemetery

    • @r-cabrita6461
      @r-cabrita6461 2 года назад +3

      @John C. Haines i imagine if blm take the piano to their headquarters and the ghost start playing racist song's

    • @r-cabrita6461
      @r-cabrita6461 2 года назад +5

      @John C. Haines ik it isn't but for blm it is for some ignorante resson

    • @syedmustafaalihashmi4819
      @syedmustafaalihashmi4819 2 года назад +4

      Me who wants to hear this song constantly : " Ferb, I know what we gonna do today"

    • @concave.
      @concave. 2 года назад +2

      @John C. Haines LMAO THIS IS SO CRINGE💀💀💀💀

    • @lopakacooper1668
      @lopakacooper1668 Год назад +2

      @@concave. Are you a Unionist by any chance, or a Northerner? 💀

  • @PiotrBarcz
    @PiotrBarcz 2 года назад +8

    Nice piano! I like that you lowered the mandolin rail for the jangly sound!

  • @noahrodriguez293
    @noahrodriguez293 Год назад +4

    Oh away down south in the land traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators...

    • @davismontana9307
      @davismontana9307 Год назад +5

      There's nothing wrong with alligators. They're pretty tasty. I have one in my pond as we speak.

  • @dewok2706
    @dewok2706 Год назад +2

    POWERFUL

  • @elgatogaming4198
    @elgatogaming4198 2 года назад +7

    0:07

  • @miguellaportacerdeiras3882
    @miguellaportacerdeiras3882 8 месяцев назад +1

    🕺🏽🔫 claqué!!!!! 👣❤️❤️

  • @agent-rtv
    @agent-rtv Год назад +10

    Long live to Dixie,God bless the South!

  • @oscarcolbert7982
    @oscarcolbert7982 3 года назад +32

    @boogin222 is it still possible to find or buy one of these? they sound amazing!

    • @boogin222
      @boogin222  3 года назад +16

      Yes, you can find them sometimes on craigslist. The above Cabaret Player Piano was made in 1986

    • @oscarcolbert7982
      @oscarcolbert7982 3 года назад +6

      @@boogin222 ah ok, thanks!

    • @G6JPG
      @G6JPG 2 года назад

      @@boogin222 Ah, I _thought_ the styling - those side panels with the grooves in for example - looked rather modern!

  • @Otto505
    @Otto505 3 года назад +26

    A ghost confederate soldier playing the piano

  • @Burnswood
    @Burnswood Год назад +16

    Looks guys, Robert Lee is playing the piano

  • @jackmurphy3940
    @jackmurphy3940 3 года назад +29

    DIXIE FOREVER!! DEO VENDICE!!!

  • @RagtimeIrvin
    @RagtimeIrvin 3 месяца назад +1

    Final Destination used this melody

  • @westron7257
    @westron7257 Год назад +2

    Enough to make Jordan Peele wet himself

  • @ConfederateJasmine
    @ConfederateJasmine Год назад +4

    Sheet music for this please! It looks like a duet. If anyone can link to an arrangement like this, please do.

  • @Senickres
    @Senickres Год назад +1

    We're making out of the Union with this one 📢📢📢🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @themonkecrusade2023
    @themonkecrusade2023 2 года назад +3

    i want one of these

  • @tomklinar8848
    @tomklinar8848 2 года назад +2

    Mine was a Aolion. Cabaret , needs a turning. Yet

  • @JohnMGilbert
    @JohnMGilbert Год назад +8

    Abe Lincoln said it was his favorite song. That's right, Abe Lincoln.

    • @davismontana9307
      @davismontana9307 Год назад +1

      That was the thinking in the 19th century. A lot of Southerners are still fighting the Civil War. ( like most of my family in GA)

    • @jeffreykalb9752
      @jeffreykalb9752 8 месяцев назад

      @@davismontana9307 Your mean the War of Northern Aggression?

  • @octaneplusultra-z1c
    @octaneplusultra-z1c Год назад +21

    Nah bro Robert e Lee himself is playing this

  • @danielboone8256
    @danielboone8256 2 года назад +14

    I imagine the piano could play without the keys moving, but I don't know for sure. Are the moving keys just for visual effects or is it necessary for the machine to function?

    • @mememaster2794
      @mememaster2794 2 года назад +2

      I don’t know how the player part works but I do know how the piano part works and yes the key would move every time

    • @ironmatic1
      @ironmatic1 Год назад +1

      The key is part of the action

    • @davismontana9307
      @davismontana9307 Год назад +1

      Some player pianos had the option. We had a 30's vintage Baldwin upright that did. Still have the piano and about 400 rolls. The rolls are still available.

  • @uncletemplar477
    @uncletemplar477 Год назад +1

    YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!

  • @ZerryBerrytheSpaceRaccoon
    @ZerryBerrytheSpaceRaccoon 2 года назад +61

    Part of me wants to sing "I Wish I Was in Dixie" but the other part of me wants to sing "Union Dixie".
    Both songs are great, help-

  • @schutzemk2811
    @schutzemk2811 Год назад +1

    now my office is a saloon!

  • @DarthTrollage
    @DarthTrollage 2 года назад +3

    Amazing

  • @SouthernGold777
    @SouthernGold777 Год назад +8

    This should be played on loud speaker in all public spaces

  • @macadoua4847
    @macadoua4847 Год назад +2

    This song was originally made by a person from New York before the Civil War. Idk why he romanticizes the South, but he was harped by Northerners for supposedly showing Southern sympathies in the song even though he was not a Southern sympathizer. When the Civil War came around the Confederate army adopted this song, but the North liked it and Abraham Lincoln made it federal property. What a slap in the face for the South😂.

  • @JakeSavich
    @JakeSavich 4 года назад +4

    This is pretty cool

  • @amywood4978
    @amywood4978 Год назад +4

    People now days would be triggered by Dixe

  • @gurgggggbbbht4
    @gurgggggbbbht4 Год назад +1

    i put money on da jeep

  • @therealvbw
    @therealvbw 2 года назад +4

    god damn right

  • @jacknedry3925
    @jacknedry3925 8 месяцев назад +1

    Are you team:
    Dixie
    Or
    Union Dixie

  • @ninesninesnines
    @ninesninesnines Год назад +1

    how did you train a ghost to play piano.

  • @tacituskilgore5372
    @tacituskilgore5372 Год назад +1

    Whatch u playing boi?

  • @jrzzrj
    @jrzzrj 2 года назад +1

    👍

  • @cannadineboxill-harris2983
    @cannadineboxill-harris2983 2 года назад +2

    Hello Old Time Music, why couldn't you Try Remaking A Daddy Grand Piano by putting on 88 Tuning Forks like what you did on an Upright Piano, Please do the Same Thing on a Daddy Grand Piano For Most of us RUclipsrs, It will be a much Better Idea For us so we can Try and See
    and Hear Pianos with 88 Tuning Forks inside Thank You.

  • @tomedy_official
    @tomedy_official Год назад +1

    (Family guy) you're a great big phonny

  • @mattweiman5144
    @mattweiman5144 Год назад +1

    When was the roll written do you know?

    • @boogin222
      @boogin222  Год назад +2

      I just checked and unfortunately there's no date on the box. It's in an old black QRS box which looks some we have from the 1920's. We have over 200 rolls. Per Wikipedia; 'Dixie' originated in the minstrel shows of the 1850s and quickly became popular throughout the United States. The song was a favorite of President Abraham Lincoln (himself born in Kentucky)'.

  • @117rebel
    @117rebel 8 месяцев назад +1

    The South will rise again!!!

  • @irenelyons698
    @irenelyons698 Год назад +1

    My piano was a waltham piano player in 1945

  • @na3044
    @na3044 3 года назад +3

    Is it just me, or are the pauses, is the rhythm... juuust off. Ever so little, but it's off.

  • @mariliaandaluz5238
    @mariliaandaluz5238 2 года назад +1

    La canfaba larry Groce

  • @narendrapatel9144
    @narendrapatel9144 2 года назад +4

    each to their own race please

  • @jdewitt77
    @jdewitt77 8 месяцев назад +1

    The South shall rise again.

  • @SomeRamenDude
    @SomeRamenDude Год назад +3

    eveyone 1..2...3
    ooh way down south in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators
    right away"right away"
    come away "come away"
    right away "right away"
    come away"come away"
    now your turn!

  • @aaronropers-huilman660
    @aaronropers-huilman660 Год назад +5

    Away down south in the land of traitors...

    • @liasmith9286
      @liasmith9286 Год назад

      shh

    • @noahrodriguez293
      @noahrodriguez293 Год назад +2

      rattlesnakes and alligators...

    • @ham2413
      @ham2413 Год назад +2

      @@noahrodriguez293 WHERE COTTONS KING AND MEN ARE CHATTELS UNION BOYS WILL WIN THE BATLLES

  • @jcmontagne7612
    @jcmontagne7612 2 года назад +18

    Long live the Confederation !

    • @vietcong8451
      @vietcong8451 2 года назад +6

      ...Even though they only lasted 5 years.

    • @cephas-pi7vc
      @cephas-pi7vc 2 года назад +4

      @@vietcong8451 k commie

    • @hectorcm2063
      @hectorcm2063 Год назад +3

      Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his uncle Sam

    • @cephas-pi7vc
      @cephas-pi7vc Год назад +1

      @@hectorcm2063 Yankee Doodle made a speech, Twas pretty full of feeling, I’m afraid says he, I cannot fight but I’m quite good at stealing.

    • @hectorcm2063
      @hectorcm2063 Год назад +1

      @@cephas-pi7vc triggered

  • @deeznigha3423
    @deeznigha3423 Год назад +1

    That piano is doing labor and its brown too