While playing an onboard Fotoplayer of course!! NASA have decreed that all future 'space' missions will carry a Fotoplayer to keep 'aliens' from invading.
The American government needs to give Joe a grant so he can buy all the remaining Fotoplayer's and restore them to their former glory. We must protect this man at all costs! God bless Joe!!!
31:40 sounds exactly like how drummers will make up their own parts in a songs , as soemone in a Drumline , maybe it’s only just for highschool so it’s more laidback, we just make up a lot of stuff if we loose our music or the music is too easy/hard and we want to spice it up or tone it down a bit.
The fact that this instrument, the fotoplayer, is SO FUN to listen to in 2023 makes me think it must have been absolutely exhillerating to listen to in a time where there were no televisions, radios, or computers, etc...
Well I understand how the piano plays itself now. Look up something called a player piano. It's essentially a paper with midi notes cut out and the holes suck air in and actuate some valves. Too complex for my brain to explain in fully but there's a video I watched a couple days ago.
There was a local pizza joint in Sacramento in the 80s that had one of these. A guy would come play the hell out of it once a week. As a child it just sounded like cartoon music, I had no idea I was being treated to a one of a kind experience from one of the rarest instruments remaining. Hearing this zany assortment of sounds brought back so many interesting memories. Thanks Joe, be well.
@@DBHEcho We had a similar pizza joint in Connecticut in the 80s, "Pizzas, Pipes, & Pandemonium." Sadly, my father only took me once, no matter how many times I begged to go back. Since then, the building has been a hardware store (NHD) for a little while, and now it's a Planet Fitness.
At the time we originally made this video as a facebook live concert the upload speed was non- existant at Joe's house and the feed kept cutting out. We had a seperate audio recorder and video recorder going, but the HD video quality turned out to be trash. I downloaded the facebook video and married the better audio recording and that is what you are watching now. This is what happens when my daughter saw a meme of Joe on twitter at 3 am on Wednesday, reposts it saying she has known Joe all her life and is a close family friend, and then the repost gets 250 thousand re-tweets overnight with people asking for a concert. Between Wednesday and Friday she was contacted by various streamng services all asking to facilitate the concert and monetize it. The catch was we had to use their equipment and software. RUclips had a policy that in order to go live you needed something like 500 subscribers, and we didn't even have a channel at that time. We knew we had to strike while the iron was hot and had no time for promotion or figuring out anything other than setting up a very basic smartphone and microphone system. We did a 2 minute test-run on Saturday and then decided to go live on Sunday night. There were ten thousand viewiers interacting with Joe and asking questions. My daughter Nina is dong the announcing. It was exactly one week after the big Covid shutown, and we were happy to give the world something to occupy their time and put a smile on their faces.
This is actually a form of computer! The paper rolls are the storage media, the instrument is the processor, and Joe executes special instructions when needed!
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I'm amazed at the talent of this man. There should be a university course or degree in musical history to play historical instruments like this. An absolute legend. I wish I was younger to learn how to play the instrument. God bless you, Joe
Honestly, this needs to be taught to Disney so it can be recreated by young blood at the parks. Imagineers could put there expertise behind restoring this stuff.
Disney asked us to make things that look like this but we're merely speakers that played pre-recorded music. The old Disney is long gone. 20 years ago they got rid of all these kinds of mechanical musical instruments because they took too much maintenance and weren't a profit center.
@@garygibson5983 ruclips.net/video/Ot_2aOfY-Z4/видео.html You can really hear Joe's influence in the first song. (This is a meme video of an AI Drake rapping over "goofy" songs that sound like they're played with a fotoplayer. Would love to see you collab with Zakk James!)
My brain literally went "Wait, this is the SMALL machine?!" What a wonderful video, thank you so much for making this happen and thank you Joe for sharing this amazing history and your talent!
I just watched the California Gold "the original episode" where they also featured his projector that would be playing along with a Fotoplayer, he is such a fascinating gentlemen. I I'm so glad this video popped up all of a sudden.
As a clock repairman and multi instrumentalist, I would be absolutely honored to wake up to Joe's magnificent fotoplayer concertos! The hour of triumph is probably my favorite roll.
Joe Rinaudo, thank you so much for taking the time to share this wonderful machine with us and taking the time to answer our questions. I feel so honored to have stumbled upon this video today. I've laughed, cried and been overwhelmed with joy. I enjoyed learning about this machine as much as i have watching you operate it. Its a very wonderful thing. Thank you sir. You are very generous. I am so thankful for people like you who take the time and effort to preserve these wonderful pieces of American history. Thank you ,sir.
Utterley Excellent joe i wish i was your next door neighbour id listen to that all day i have my earfònes in so lòud i liked warner tune class loud my grandma had a pub had a pump air piano i am 53 now can still remember it wen i was abt 4 year old dont no where hers went to excellent
I think one of the coolest things is that it's a player roll system. But because of the interactive portion with the artist at the console, every single performance was still unique to that showing.
what an absolute flex. i don't even want to imagine the work it took to get this magnificent piece of musical engineering operational again, or the trek and a half you had to take to find those rolls. god bless Joe Rinaudo.
arglaggin car of 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 The prety song they make tglaggle sand, the song they play at glognut stands that could joyou 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀joyou🙂🙂🙂🙂🙃😇🙂joy Reminder to tear apart emphosoposters!!
The Great Race just made my day. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time. It reminds me when me and my dad would watch it every Friday night. You have no idea how happy you’ve just made me. Thank you
zeer geachte heer, ik heb genoten van uw bijzondere muziek. In deze toch weer moeilijk tijd, voor ons in Europa, heeft uw muziek mij vrucht gebracht...heel veel dank daar voor....
This is just beautiful to watch. I am always so amazed at the intricacy of the machanics behind machines like these and the Wurlitzer organ. Thank you for doing what you do!
In the 1950’s there was a real live ice cream parlor in Eagle River Wisconsin. It was a classic original. White marble counter tops, wire bistro tables and chairs, a red and white color scheme with a white and black mosaic tile floor. And there was the mandatory two little old ladies scooping out ice cream, getting the candies and and squirting real soda water into the glasses with flavored syrup in the bottom,,, “one squirt or two?” But the real treat was the back wall of the store. It was an entire automated orchestra in a box. Behind the bubbly glass doors were instruments, beautiful instruments of all types. Violin, cello, piano, many types of drums including a really big one with red, black and chrome lettering on it. There were probably 15 or twenty instruments. Each instrument had every sort if wire, strings, boards, supports, tubes, gears and pulleys connected to and obscuring them. When you put in a dime there was some groaning and strange wooden sounds as it awoke. And then it would explode to life. Loud drum beats. Wild piano. Frantic string instruments. And wonderful whistles. All together they blasted out Sousa Marches, the Star Spangled Banner, Beautiful Ohio and tons of patriotic songs from World War I. It was magical to a six year old boy in the north woods summer.
I’m fairly certain Joe could fly a space shuttle on his own.
...and he could build one too!!!!!
I can definitely see that😂
While playing an onboard Fotoplayer of course!! NASA have decreed that all future 'space' missions will carry a Fotoplayer to keep 'aliens' from invading.
T minus 5... T minus 4... T minus 3.... T minus 2.... T minus 1.... HIT IT, JOE!! 🤣
@@patpatterson7914 lift off! we had a lift off!
go for roll joe! 😉
The American government needs to give Joe a grant so he can buy all the remaining Fotoplayer's and restore them to their former glory. We must protect this man at all costs! God bless Joe!!!
For real!! As a percussionist i would have so much fun playing around with this
Naw fuck the fotoplayers id rather have a grant for free food the rest my life
@@liamd969 Notching is free. Get a job you communist.
@@liamd969nah that’s not fun
@@electronicsandmusic2077 neither is starving
This dude's neighbors must be the most chill of people.
If I was his neighbor I would be egging him on, I love stuff like this.
The entire neighbourhood has not stopped dancing since Joe's Fotoplayer was restored.
I would love to be his neighbour, waking up to a masterpiece
In the original episode the meme came from, he said the neighbors ask him to open the door so they can hear it better!
31:40 sounds exactly like how drummers will make up their own parts in a songs , as soemone in a Drumline , maybe it’s only just for highschool so it’s more laidback, we just make up a lot of stuff if we loose our music or the music is too easy/hard and we want to spice it up or tone it down a bit.
"so what instrument do you play?"
Joe: "Yes."
👏👏👏
Or "It's complicated" (literally)
The fact that this instrument, the fotoplayer, is SO FUN to listen to in 2023 makes me think it must have been absolutely exhillerating to listen to in a time where there were no televisions, radios, or computers, etc...
Don't forget no DAWs or mobile workstations either! All of the piano parts are played somehow in there mechanically.
They were used for silent movies
@@InvalidUser18mechanical engineers are the goat
@@bruhism173 fs.
Well I understand how the piano plays itself now. Look up something called a player piano. It's essentially a paper with midi notes cut out and the holes suck air in and actuate some valves. Too complex for my brain to explain in fully but there's a video I watched a couple days ago.
I initially saw a documentary online as a meme and followed the iceberg here. I definitely don’t regret it.
Me too haha 😂
Which documentary?
@@gubgub3275 California's Gold. its on yt
me too
Me too
There was a local pizza joint in Sacramento in the 80s that had one of these. A guy would come play the hell out of it once a week. As a child it just sounded like cartoon music, I had no idea I was being treated to a one of a kind experience from one of the rarest instruments remaining.
Hearing this zany assortment of sounds brought back so many interesting memories. Thanks Joe, be well.
And where was this?
@@zfilms4858 Pizza and Pipes. I was just a pup, my memory is hazy on this but I remember so many zany sounds.
@@DBHEcho We had a similar pizza joint in Connecticut in the 80s, "Pizzas, Pipes, & Pandemonium." Sadly, my father only took me once, no matter how many times I begged to go back. Since then, the building has been a hardware store (NHD) for a little while, and now it's a Planet Fitness.
@@DBHEcho The Pizza and Pipes on Arden Way had a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ... I went there a number of times, never saw a Fotoplayer.
@@dashcamandy2242 Imagine that Planet Fitness still had the Photoplayer...
Best.
Workout.
Ever.
That whistle sends me everytime
At the time we originally made this video as a facebook live concert the upload speed was non- existant at Joe's house and the feed kept cutting out. We had a seperate audio recorder and video recorder going, but the HD video quality turned out to be trash. I downloaded the facebook video and married the better audio recording and that is what you are watching now. This is what happens when my daughter saw a meme of Joe on twitter at 3 am on Wednesday, reposts it saying she has known Joe all her life and is a close family friend, and then the repost gets 250 thousand re-tweets overnight with people asking for a concert. Between Wednesday and Friday she was contacted by various streamng services all asking to facilitate the concert and monetize it. The catch was we had to use their equipment and software. RUclips had a policy that in order to go live you needed something like 500 subscribers, and we didn't even have a channel at that time. We knew we had to strike while the iron was hot and had no time for promotion or figuring out anything other than setting up a very basic smartphone and microphone system. We did a 2 minute test-run on Saturday and then decided to go live on Sunday night. There were ten thousand viewiers interacting with Joe and asking questions. My daughter Nina is dong the announcing. It was exactly one week after the big Covid shutown, and we were happy to give the world something to occupy their time and put a smile on their faces.
Well thanks for the concert! It was thoroughly enjoyable!
This is so incredible it's beyond words!! Thank you for posting this gem, it's just beyond anything else in this genre!
What a crazy amazing time we are living in. Imagine way back then when the photo player thing was considered futuristic 🤯
Incredible... Btw why not to mute damn phones while filming such rare gems?
Can only imagine what Joe's neighbors feel when they hear "Hit it Joe!" lmao
This is actually a form of computer!
The paper rolls are the storage media, the instrument is the processor, and Joe executes special instructions when needed!
Nice try, but it's a purely mechanical analog device.
@@anonymike8280 It was a joke...
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This is the most wonderfully American thing I've ever seen
I'm amazed at the talent of this man. There should be a university course or degree in musical history to play historical instruments like this. An absolute legend. I wish I was younger to learn how to play the instrument. God bless you, Joe
C'est une machine qui joue, un premier robot musical , Pas besoin d'apprendre !😊
It's never too late to learn!
Honestly, this needs to be taught to Disney so it can be recreated by young blood at the parks. Imagineers could put there expertise behind restoring this stuff.
Disney asked us to make things that look like this but we're merely speakers that played pre-recorded music. The old Disney is long gone. 20 years ago they got rid of all these kinds of mechanical musical instruments because they took too much maintenance and weren't a profit center.
@@garygibson5983 it's sad because there is an orchestrian at one of the shops in frontierland but it's really really sadly out of tune.
@@garygibson5983 They're too lazy
An extremely rare 1915 American Fotoplayer, Style 45 (the largest unit made) sold at Southeby's Auctions in 2012 for $US414,000.
Crazy that Drake credited Joe as his major influence in his last album.
WHAT??????
@@garygibson5983 ruclips.net/video/Ot_2aOfY-Z4/видео.html
You can really hear Joe's influence in the first song. (This is a meme video of an AI Drake rapping over "goofy" songs that sound like they're played with a fotoplayer. Would love to see you collab with Zakk James!)
Idk if that video exists anymore
What a strange and wonderful time capsule. Thank you for sharing. Your enthusiasm is palpable.
My brain literally went "Wait, this is the SMALL machine?!"
What a wonderful video, thank you so much for making this happen and thank you Joe for sharing this amazing history and your talent!
this sounds like all rollercoaster tycoon songs playing at once and I love it
Playing the maching is an art form alone. Joe is a master and genius with his knowledge.
Back when musical instruments were more than toys. This machine is a masterpiece of art. I hope it NEVER sees a museum but rather keeps getting played
I just watched the California Gold "the original episode" where they also featured his projector that would be playing along with a Fotoplayer, he is such a fascinating gentlemen. I I'm so glad this video popped up all of a sudden.
Joe Rinaudo is one of the coolest people I have ever seen
This is soooo goofy that I can tune in for the whole concert
This is offically my ringtone. If you want to get to me. Wait through the whole concert.
Joe and his Fotoplayer is a national treasure.
As a clock repairman and multi instrumentalist, I would be absolutely honored to wake up to Joe's magnificent fotoplayer concertos! The hour of triumph is probably my favorite roll.
Joe Rinaudo, thank you so much for taking the time to share this wonderful machine with us and taking the time to answer our questions. I feel so honored to have stumbled upon this video today. I've laughed, cried and been overwhelmed with joy. I enjoyed learning about this machine as much as i have watching you operate it. Its a very wonderful thing. Thank you sir. You are very generous. I am so thankful for people like you who take the time and effort to preserve these wonderful pieces of American history. Thank you ,sir.
It's the Whoopie Whistle that gets me every time - EVERY TIME 1:00:18
NPR Music needs to get this man to do a Tiny Desk concert
Facts
Utterley Excellent joe i wish i was your next door neighbour id listen to that all day i have my earfònes in so lòud i liked warner tune class loud my grandma had a pub had a pump air piano i am 53 now can still remember it wen i was abt 4 year old dont no where hers went to excellent
This is what goes on in my head some days
Almost 4 years late, but thank you. Bless you all.
I love this guy and that amazing instrumental!
This has to be preserved at all costs
Mans has officially been an orchestra. Amazinfg concert
I think one of the coolest things is that it's a player roll system. But because of the interactive portion with the artist at the console, every single performance was still unique to that showing.
what an absolute flex. i don't even want to imagine the work it took to get this magnificent piece of musical engineering operational again, or the trek and a half you had to take to find those rolls. god bless Joe Rinaudo.
The glaggles are so joyous hearing thw concert 😊😊
arglaggin car of 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 The prety song they make tglaggle sand, the song they play at glognut stands that could joyou 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀joyou🙂🙂🙂🙂🙃😇🙂joy
Reminder to tear apart emphosoposters!!
The most joyous concert 🙂🙂
This is a very joyous occurrence 😊
blibbles field automotive festival
Joe is so precious
The Great Race just made my day. It’s one of my favorite movies of all time. It reminds me when me and my dad would watch it every Friday night. You have no idea how happy you’ve just made me. Thank you
Absolutely spectacular at ALL levels!!
one of my comfort videos, thank you joe ❤❤
Can't tell you how much joy this Q and A / performance brought me. Thank you!
I can never get enough of Joe and his machine. love ya joe!
What an enjoyable hour. Thank you to all involved!
What a strange and wonderful time capsule. Thank you for sharing. Your enthusiasm is palpable.
Joe, I'm going through a bad time, and this video is making me feel better.
I love you all, thank you so much for the content. Makes me so happy!
God bless this man! Legend!!!
Hearing this makes me smile so genuinely.
I love this man so much
I love this so much! Thanks for posting!
You have brought me gladness and smiles today
This video is the best thing to come out of quarantine! Thank you for the concert! 😄
love his passion
❤ wonderful! Thank you! Looking forward to watching more. Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.😊
Thanks I needed this!
This guy is too cool! Love his spirit!
That was so fun! I love this. Thank you!
Absolutely love this video, what a great start to my Sunday morning. Been smiling the whole way through. Thanks Joe. 👍🏻😍😊
Glaggleland concert
This made me so happy! Joe ur the man! Thank you for this performance
so happy to find this gem
thanks for making fotoplaying stay alive
Absolute Spitze. Dankeschööön! ❤❤
zeer geachte heer, ik heb genoten van uw bijzondere muziek. In deze toch weer moeilijk tijd, voor ons in Europa, heeft uw muziek mij vrucht gebracht...heel veel dank daar voor....
This is just beautiful to watch. I am always so amazed at the intricacy of the machanics behind machines like these and the Wurlitzer organ. Thank you for doing what you do!
This was absolutely amazing
This is my new fav Video on the entierty of RUclips!!!! Thanks for making my day better cause this is great!
this is amazing.. i hope hes doing well! hes a national treasure!
Thank you from Paris France!🎉🎉
so nice to see him again thank you, i love him. thank you.
The Mit, The Legend, The Arquitect of the funny noises. JOE RINAUDO.
This man is a national treasure
What a talented, knowledgable and fun guy !!! Joe you're #1 !!!!
He's the whole orchestra
I want this to be played at my funeral. Going out with a smile
The Curley "woop woop woop woop" just actually made me laugh out loud haha
I’m a theater organ player. But I would LOVE to have a chance to see one of these in Person sometime!!
Spectacular, thank you!
"The Three Magic Words".
Bless California Gold. Truly a Gold of all time.
This is truely amazing and imperessive.
This was dynamite! Thank you!
He’s back and better than ever baby
Thank you for this!!
Im absolutely lovin it!
Thank you for doing this ! Fun and interesting to see and hear...
this is my new favorite thing to watch while doing homework
In the 1950’s there was a real live ice cream parlor in Eagle River Wisconsin. It was a classic original. White marble counter tops, wire bistro tables and chairs, a red and white color scheme with a white and black mosaic tile floor. And there was the mandatory two little old ladies scooping out ice cream, getting the candies and and squirting real soda water into the glasses with flavored syrup in the bottom,,, “one squirt or two?” But the real treat was the back wall of the store. It was an entire automated orchestra in a box. Behind the bubbly glass doors were instruments, beautiful instruments of all types. Violin, cello, piano, many types of drums including a really big one with red, black and chrome lettering on it. There were probably 15 or twenty instruments. Each instrument had every sort if wire, strings, boards, supports, tubes, gears and pulleys connected to and obscuring them.
When you put in a dime there was some groaning and strange wooden sounds as it awoke. And then it would explode to life. Loud drum beats. Wild piano. Frantic string instruments. And wonderful whistles. All together they blasted out Sousa Marches, the Star Spangled Banner, Beautiful Ohio and tons of patriotic songs from World War I. It was magical to a six year old boy in the north woods summer.
The technology is so marvelous to me. And just captivates me.
i never seen a video with more then one most replayed part, and i dont mind it, Joe is amazing imagine having him as a grandpa
My favorite instrument is the whatchamacallit
this is the only music I need until I die
it never gets boring
Wow 😊 great thanks Joe
That old gal is an engineering marvel, and bless Joe for keeping it alive
This always puts a smile on my face when needed! Thanks Joe
This man is a Legend 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪
Joe is the most talented person ive ever seen
I love Joe
This makes me happy