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- 100 Years Old and remains one of the most AMAZING pieces of mechanical engineering by humans! NOT a Player Piano, this actually recreates the PERFORMANCE of the player, changing volume, tone, and levels, as if the pianist was actually playing it! Todd Tuckey shows you this 1920 instrument--so few are left in the world today! Look at its construction and then listen to 4 famous songs played by pianist greats George Gershwin, and others! Bolero, Funeral March for a Marionette, Claire de Lune, and Rhapsody in Blue. MARVEL at how accurate it sounds and WONDER if it may be a ghost operating the pedals!
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A wonderful bit of culture from Todd Tuckey. Todd, if your channel was nothing but you playing piano, I'd still watch every video. Thank you for this. And thank Frank for filming.
You're welcome! Frank enjoyed filming too (took perhaps 5 hours to film!)
That was wonderful, Todd (and Frank)! Fascinating and really quite magical. Lovely to see you play at the end too! Thank you :)
Thank you for your comments!!
Fascinating! The machine is a work of art as much as those beautiful pieces were. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing this. Magnificent machine. Glad it opens up so easily to show off and demonstrate how it works.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
THANK YOU! I have no words, just THANK YOU!
Glad you enjoyed it!
TNT Amusements Inc you had words it was thank you....
Thank you for playing the full songs!!! I hope you can record more videos playing more of your songs!
Yes...I may do another video down the road...this one took 25 hours to film and edit!
Todd, your Duo-Art expresses very well for a 40 year old restoration. Your video is a great detailed demonstration of the Duo-Art. I have a restored 1924 Weber Duo-Art grand I purchased about 10 years ago...My roll collection keeps growing (thanks to Ebay). Growing up in the 60's, I enjoyed pumping the old 88 note players in friends' basements. When i first heard a reproducing piano play (around1983), it blew me away. Thanks for sharing.
Yes...that's about the same time I discovered these amazing machines too! To be able to be a part and listen to this music today, as the composer intended , is just so neat and unique! I just wnate dot share...since so many are unaware of them! Hope your collection grows too!
VEEERY IMPRESSIVE! .... love this ... art and technology
Thank you, Todd and Frank, for this amazing video. Even Frank was impressed - you know it must be good! You make a lot of videos, and put care into them, and this one was no exception. Best wishes!
Thank you Michael....spent alot of time on this video over the last month (was filmed in October/November).
This brings back so many good memories for me...My Aunt had one of those so many years ago..We would sit around the living room and just listen....Thank you...(holding back a tear)
Glad you enjoyed this!!
Pianola
I have a player with a serpentine tracker bar. It also has bellows for each of the pedals. A trunk full of rolls. The piano is in playable order and was tuned about 7 years ago. The player last worked about 45 years ago and was in need of some repair then. I've inherited the piano from my parents who purchaced it 2nd hand over 65 years ago and the player was fully functional at that time. It's my hope that I will be able to actually restore it back to working order someday.
i love how it sounds and here is the list of songs
Funeral March of a Marionette 21:54
Le Clair de Lune 28:08
Balero 36:41
Part II Rhapsody in blue 36:44
Thank you for taking the time to do this!!! Glad you loved hearing the piano!
What an Amazing Piano Todd! Now you have me hooked on finding one of these piano's! Thanks again for the Lesson on The Amazing DUO ART REPRODUCING Player Piano...very informative and an Amazing Technology with no kind of electronics in it. The people who made this way back were Genius's! These are one of those work of art products they made back in the day that will last forever!
Thank you so much for your comment! It is much appreciated!!
just wow :) thanks for showing.
Thank you for commenting!
I adore Gershwin!! I giggled hearing him improvise!!
He just LOVED the DuoArt system! All there was were scratchy records!
Great video Todd - having grown up the son of antique fans (my first outing as an infant back in 74 was to a estate auction:)) I really appreciate the wide knowledge base you have acquired. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience with us and have a great 2017!
Glad you enjoyed the video Brian....I always wanted to share that piano...and the video took some 25 hours to get together, but wanted others to know about these rare machines!
Just love your wit, humour and personality, not to mention the whole piano experience. Mervyn (Ireland)
Thank you so much...I am glad you enjoyed the video! Please share it!!
I love this guy
I just repaired and tuned one of these
Wow, absolutely facinating!
:-)
So glad I found this video.
I hope you enjoyed it!! :-)
At last I have found you! What wonderful videos! What interesting and knowledgeable presenters!
I loved the Living is Good roll! Seriously, great work on the keys Todd. I have to add a belated Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, your family, and everyone at TNT!
Thanks Jason! Frank's idea on the Living is Good roll! Thank you for your wishes too!
Great history lesson Todd! so much work before to get music played. amazing construction.
Thanks Andreas!! Glad you enjoyed it!
His was not a revelation to me because I've seen a bazillion different player piano rolls. I really enjoyed this video! It was just nice to watch and I linda felt like I was chatting with a friend. I really want a DuoArt now. Since I don't have a player piano I think it would be a blast. It was just nice to watch. I like how you talked about all the features. Plus the sound was wonderful. I've not heard a Reproducing piano before. The song selection was perfect. LOL. I could really tell the difference between the types of rolls too!
What a very charming video. I enjoyed it a lot!
Very cool! Very nice presentation. Thank you for sharing.
I appreciate your comment! Thanks!
one hour of awesome...thank you so much
Glad you enjoyed the video..it was fun to make!
This was incredibly awesome!!!!!!
Thanks for sharing that! I actually thought I was hearing Gershwin playing his own composition!
This has made my day!
Thanks again!
Thank you for commenting...I am glad you enjoyed it and learned something!
Very informative and interesting. I recall from my time as a kid in the 1950s that some would remove the player piano works from a player piano. In retrospect that appears short sighted as the presence of the player works did not interfere with manual playing but was done, as I recall, to encourage people to learn to play the piano rather than simply push the pump pedals to get piano music.
Thank you Henry...So few Reproducers are left these days too....and now the new electronic pianos can reproduce this way....so people do not want to fuss with 100 year old equipment!
Some where in Time is such a beautiful Song
Yes...John Barry's Somewhere in Time soundtrack sold more copies than ALL of his other movie soundtracks COMBINED! (he did alot of Bond music too)
Wow I didn't know he did The Black Hole and Howard the Duck as well.
The ghostly appearance of George Gershwin playing his piano during the Rhapsody In Blue performance at 55.40 was just magic for me; brought tears to my eyes. George might be delighted to know that he was brought back to life if for only a few magical seconds.
Mr Gershwin LOVED the DuoArt system---he realized it was a way for his original performance could be enjoyed for years to come. I think he would be thrilled to realize that 100 years later, we could imagine him sitting there right at the keyboard!
Its truly a thing of beauty thank you for sharing this with us.
You're welcome!!
What a fantastic machine, I love Claire Du Lune, that Intel processor plays with such feeling. Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it! We like to put little funny things in here and there! :-)
I have a pinball machine (1976 Gottlieb Solar City) and a 1916 Autopiano Player Piano in the process of major restoration, takes years.
yes it does!!
Very cool Todd! Thanks for sharing! An Uncle of mine had a player piano and I always thought it was the coolest thing as a little kid.
Thanks Paul!
great video and thax for teaching me alot that i didnt know. very neat....love old stuff
Thank you Darin!
Very nice player, thanks for sharing!
Great, fun to watch, and mostly informative! One small nitpick: the motor doesn't supply air to the piano, it is a vacuum . My grandmother used to always kid us when she said " the player piano sucks, doesn't it?" We'd say "no it doesn't" and she would smile... Yes, we knew, but it made her happy. I have a 1984 Aeolian 88 standard I am restoring, and being a Geek, I am adding an optic reader that will fit over the paper. It will play drums. lol
Never knew a whole lot about these pianos...but just love them and all the ingenuity that went into them so long ago! Glad you liked the video! I just had to share it with others who know nothing about them!
Amazing engineering! I've been an electronics tech for over 20 years.... but this is the kind of thing I love to see.
Did you guys ever have to get schematics for the older arcade and pinball machines on micro film? Some of the old stuff I used to repair only had schematics in that format.
Glad you enjoyed it! Never experimented with microfilm yet...I wonder if others have?
Wow, so many moving parts this is awesome...
Glad you enjoyed the video!
+TNT Amusements Inc, Todd...this is the second time I have heard you play piano. Good job young man! Was it an original tune? Why not more videos of you playing a piano with your own original songs?
That was the theme from Somewhere In Time, Randy!!
I liked when you tried to play a paper towel on the piano lol
Couldn't resist!
Facinating Todd, thanks for sharing! Love your channel.
Glad you liked it Scott!
Thank you for sharing your incredible knowledge. Duo Art for me!!
Sort of like the computerized PianoDisc system today but with no
electronics!!
This is great, Todd! Just heard Kaneda's interview with you after he gloom and doomed all over the place. I'd love to see a Spike Jones/ Lawrence Welk/ Mickey Finn caricature themed pinball full of player pianos, ragtime and mid century hokeyness. To hell with licensed themes and testosterone fueled man-boy fantasies. Hahah. Stay well and I look forward to your online auction:-)
Great vid, thanks! Clare de Lune is lovely piece! :D
Thank you Jason!
❤ this so much. What a marvel! Makes me want to get a bigger house just to be able to obtain and enjoy one.
Beautiful machine. When humans arent at war, they can do amazing things.
And the last new one made 80 years ago!
Hi is the sustain pedal lever in the ON position? Roger Brooks. Scotland.
Thanks, Todd, this was amazing! And the best of all was to see you play!! You blew me away!! I was moved to tears, believe it or not... Happy New Year! :-)
Thank you Nic for your comment! I appreciate it!
The LED upgrade YEssssss lol Hahhaa loved when he said that.
Frank couldn;t resist!!
I would dearly love one of these fabulous instruments - played piano all my life and have known many people with player paianos, but if I had one myself it would have to have 'expression' built in! Great video posting sir, thank you! I could feel your emotion and passion at the end of the Gershwin :)
Glad you enjoyed it! Yes...these rolls bring the piano players alive again..imagining them recording them back in the teens for people to listen to 100 years later, just as they played them! Please share the video with friends to!!
Fantastic video, and nice music
Thanks!
I just discovered these wonderful automatic playing pianos. They are kind of creepy because it’s like the ghost of the artist is trapped in the paper roll and is set free to play the notes exactly how they were recorded over 100 years ago. Closest thing to time traveling. It’s like being in the room in 1915 listening to the performance as it was recorded. This is not a reproduction of the performance. It’s the actual performance! Seriously my mind is blown. One other thing, Hollywood must have used player pianos in those haunted house movies that feature a piano playing by itself.
Glad you enjoyed the video...this video has enlightened many people about this whole other form of player piano!
*That how that piano can play something like that second song is amazing*
Agreed! It still amazes me!
Just curious how much these are worth please? I have seen one for sale but I cant seem to find any others that were sold online to gauge what the price should be :-) Thank you.
The values have dropped on reproducer pianos. Possibly find a Facebook group of collectors of these special pianos to figure what it is worth unrestored. Even though mine was done in the 80's, it would need alot redone on it over time.
Love the orchestestrons too ...some are midi input.. love to see a modern version with e drums which are Now as good as regular drums and with a modern electronic keyboard
I love the fact that you said to Frank, "Now get out!" and he said, "You've got to be kidding me right now." That was impressive part.
Frank always give me trouble!
Oh.
great video! thanks for sharing.
any chance you have an orchestrion as well?
No...never bought one...only this one mechanical musical instrument!
did you ever get it fixed again Todd? looks like something fun to have.
It really should be rebuilt again with new hoses etc...that would cost 4K...it is not on my list right now, but maybe when I get my inheritence from a distant cousin I never met!
@@tntamusements…..how did the inheritance go….or are you still waiting 😂. Aren’t they great pieces of mechanical marvel….took me 50 yrs to get one that I didn’t have to have any work done on it…a Gulbransen…I just have to get a electric pump for it…might wait until I get to the States to get one and bring back….
"We're mixing in pinballs with games." Wait, what, pinball isn't _already_ a game?
New here. Great work love this video
My God, the man has TALENT! And all I have is good looks :(
Wish my wife thought so!! :-)
That was so much fun. Thank you for all of the interesting stories. I have a reproduction grand piano (Weber 1916, I think) which is just about finished being totally overhauled. I can't wait to get it back. I was just looking at some of my piano rolls today (I have about 750, mostly duo-art) and they are in amazingly good shape. Thanks, again.
Thank you Marcia for commenting! I figure this video will bring attention to lots of people that were unaware of this lost system of reproduction!
amazing and eerie at the same time! like his ghost came back to play once again! I love it! ...on a side note: imagine the fun you'd have scaring the crap out of kids!! BWAHahahaha! On a serious note it's great! Wish I had one!!
Thank you for commenting!
Todd, Frank thanks for the great video. It was really neat to see the inside of one these great musical instruments.
I always wondered how they worked and now I know.
How much does something like this weigh? I was waiting for a gage while you where playing.
Thanks again guys
Glad you liked the video! The extra apparatus for the Duo Art adds another 300 pounds to the weight....4 very large men brought it into my house when we moved it...obviously its so much heavier than a standard upright.
how long did it take Larry to tune the piano?
It was over two hours!
Great video Todd, when do we see your Rube Goldberg machine next ?
Thanks Bobby!
Loved the ending. Really, that's not a dig. ;)
Glad you enjoyed it! The ending is a throw back to my role as Franklin Roosevelt when I was in Annie Warbucks...and some 4 years ago filmed lots of endings in my foyer with that costume!
Are modern rolls still made out of paper, or out of some composite material that is more durable? The paper rolls seem so fragile.
As I mention in the video, pretty much all new rolls are on parchment paper...so it wont rip for quite awhile!
I own a 1912 Steck Themodist/metrostyle made in Gotha, Germany. It‘s amazing.
Neat! A very rare piece!
Hi Todd...I have the same piano (minus the "light") Not to nit-pick but you mentioned the pump as a "compressor" but in fact it produces Vacuum; the whole piano operates by vacuum! Nice video...now if we can only get the kids to pit down their cell-phones to watch.
Thanks for commenting! And I have fired my script writer too!! :-) Maybe one day this video will suddenly become the Must See video on someone's super popular list so more can be exposed to these unknown mechanical marvels!
why did they stop getting built its a brilliant invention
Too much to make back then!
@@tntamusements well surely people today can start working on them
Magic fingers.
It's a shame that we are so desensitized to technology. We expect people to come up with something to do everything these days. Back then, this was basically witchcraft! Amazing amazing amazing tech and a great video,Todd
Thanks Matt!
Todd, you should have a roll recorded of your own playing
I will have to really get down and practice...I rarely play now and my fat fingers hit wrong notes now!
Sounded pretty convincing to me! But you could always do Space Invaders or Galaga
I have a 1925 and I can't get it to auto play is there WAY to plug it in lol I Mean I know nothng that is why I am asking
I got it From Estate cleanout
What an amazing piece of oldschool technology... have you ever fooled anyone into believing that piano was haunted? :D
Haven't tried that yet!
Uprights dave space!
Was there a coin-op version?
I doubt it...last reproducers were made in 1936. There are plenty of coin op regular roll machines that play other instruments and use different holes to operate them, but none that would play with expression like these models.
quality:-)
Drenched in quality!
got a scroll for the Peter Gunn theme??? Halloween? Home Sweet Home (Motley Crew)?
Pretty much all the rolls I have are older ones...but they may be on the QRS roll library!
TNT Amusements Inc can you list of what you have??? 1812 overture??? everyone has that... bach? Mozart? tell us enquiring minds want to know...
Never really made a list of the rolls I still have...maybe will do another video of the piano at some point!!
So my guess is that the actual reproducing/ building of these pianos is a lost art? The only other way would be to copy the construction piece by piece. But then again, it would probably be very expensive to build, plus the market for these would be very limited to those who have the money to spend.
The last new one was manufactured 80 years ago in 1936...I would say its a lost art for sure!
With modern electronics, doubtful you will ever see these made again unfortunately. But in post EMP apocalyptic world, this would be the jukebox and hub of entertainment.
I WANNA BE PINNED FOR REAL AND WHO IS RECORDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
you sure collect some cool crap. thanks for sharing.
You're welcome!
That piano is as old as my parents house. It was made in 1917. Wow you can play!!! Mean Frank at it again saying your fingers was only good for picking up food.
:-) I do ask Frank to put stuff in as we film...its all in fun!! And it adds "color" to our episodes!
Seeberg Juke boxes came after the player pianos from the same company
Can you physically play a player piano,?? Did they use them in movies to make people think the actor was playing it
Where's Frank's battery holder?
Ahhh...that's hidden!!!
Piano could do with a good dusting.
Get on with it.
An awesome, entertaining and educational video here. Music was very touching and sounded very real. I was wondering if that company you mentioned that still makes piano rolls makes any rolls of any Beatles material. I'd love that. If you really like Bolero, you seriously need to check out Frank Zappa's version. He did a great job with it here: ruclips.net/video/hziDXCFhuIM/видео.html
I am sure Beatles songs were made into regular 88 note roles...but not sure if someone ever took the time to create a Duoart roll! I did enjoy the Frank Zappa Bolero!!
Todd can you please send me your neck tie please
Please stop Frank interrupting!
Jesus Mary and Joseph
Omg the tempo for Debussy is way way off
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