A player piano (also known as pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music recorded on perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls, with more modern implementations using MIDI encoded music stored on floppy disks or CDs. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass-produced piano for the home in the late 19th and early 20th century. Sales peaked in 1924, then declined as the improvement in phonograph recordings due to electrical recording methods developed in the mid-1920s. The advent of electrical amplification in home music reproduction via radio in the same period helped cause their eventual decline in popularity, and the stock market crash of 1929 virtually wiped out production.
Antecedents
The idea of automatic musical devices can be traced back many centuries, and the use of pinned barrels to operate percussion mechanisms (such as striking bells in a clock) was perfected long before the invention of the piano. These devices were later extended to operate musical boxes, which contain a set of tuned metal teeth plucked by the player mechanism.
This was my latest project. I picked it and 68 rolls of music up for little of nothing because it didn't work. Honestly, it didn't take much to get it running again. There was a rats nest in the vacuum box that had wedged into the motor brushes and didn't allow contact. A general cleanup, adjustment, and repairing a few parts had it in pretty good shape.
published: 05 Oct 2013
"Mister Sandman" on a 1916 Behr Bros. Player Piano
One of my favorites.
QRS Roll #9097
Played by Sid Laney
published: 02 Jul 2019
A 10-year old violin prodigy plays Vivaldi Summer with me and SHOCKS the whole Airport 😱🎻
published: 11 Aug 2024
How Does A Player Piano Work? - A Basic Explanation
In this video, I do my best to explain the inner workings of my player piano, and how it works. The roll used to demonstrate is QRS roll 8818: Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson, played by J. Lawrence Cook.
At the time of uploading this, my channel is nearing 100 subscribers and 100,000 total views. I am incredibly thankful to all my subscribers and viewers for getting me here. I had no idea that I would have that many views/subscribers when I started uploading videos.
published: 06 May 2020
Street Fighter (Guile's Theme) - Sonya Belousova
Composer/Pianist Sonya Belousova and Director Tom Grey take on Guile's Theme from the legendary Street Fighter Game Series.
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Video Directed & Produced by: Tom Grey
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Original Arrangement Written & Perfor...
published: 08 Dec 2014
Super Mario Bros Medley - Sonya Belousova
Celebrate 30 years of Super Mario Bros with this piano arrangement of original Mario Themes on a custom Nintendo Piano by Composer & Pianist Sonya Belousova and Director Tom Grey.
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Music Arranged and Performed by: Sonya Belousova
Video Produced and Directed by: Tom Grey
Cinematography by: Ryan Meyer
NES Piano by: Megan Burns
Executive Producer: Adam Mitropoulo...
published: 28 Jul 2015
This 14 years old girl shocked everyone with her voice 😱❤️
Today a mother asked me if her 14 years old daughter could sing with me. But I didn't expect her voice to sound like this 🥹
#piano #singing #dernieredanse #indila #publicreaction
published: 25 Jun 2024
Carol of the Bells 🔔 (Simple Tutorial) #piano #pianotutorial #christmas #christiansongs
published: 02 Nov 2023
Day 1 of playing piano until I go viral 📈✅🎹 #shorts #piano #viral
This was my latest project. I picked it and 68 rolls of music up for little of nothing because it didn't work. Honestly, it didn't take much to get it running a...
This was my latest project. I picked it and 68 rolls of music up for little of nothing because it didn't work. Honestly, it didn't take much to get it running again. There was a rats nest in the vacuum box that had wedged into the motor brushes and didn't allow contact. A general cleanup, adjustment, and repairing a few parts had it in pretty good shape.
This was my latest project. I picked it and 68 rolls of music up for little of nothing because it didn't work. Honestly, it didn't take much to get it running again. There was a rats nest in the vacuum box that had wedged into the motor brushes and didn't allow contact. A general cleanup, adjustment, and repairing a few parts had it in pretty good shape.
In this video, I do my best to explain the inner workings of my player piano, and how it works. The roll used to demonstrate is QRS roll 8818: Blue Tango by Ler...
In this video, I do my best to explain the inner workings of my player piano, and how it works. The roll used to demonstrate is QRS roll 8818: Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson, played by J. Lawrence Cook.
At the time of uploading this, my channel is nearing 100 subscribers and 100,000 total views. I am incredibly thankful to all my subscribers and viewers for getting me here. I had no idea that I would have that many views/subscribers when I started uploading videos.
In this video, I do my best to explain the inner workings of my player piano, and how it works. The roll used to demonstrate is QRS roll 8818: Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson, played by J. Lawrence Cook.
At the time of uploading this, my channel is nearing 100 subscribers and 100,000 total views. I am incredibly thankful to all my subscribers and viewers for getting me here. I had no idea that I would have that many views/subscribers when I started uploading videos.
Composer/Pianist Sonya Belousova and Director Tom Grey take on Guile's Theme from the legendary Street Fighter Game Series.
Sheet Music ►► http://mnot.es/Play...
Celebrate 30 years of Super Mario Bros with this piano arrangement of original Mario Themes on a custom Nintendo Piano by Composer & Pianist Sonya Belousova and...
Celebrate 30 years of Super Mario Bros with this piano arrangement of original Mario Themes on a custom Nintendo Piano by Composer & Pianist Sonya Belousova and Director Tom Grey.
Sheet Music ►► http://mnot.es/Player-Piano
Patreon ►► http://www.patreon.com/playerpiano
Download Our Songs ►► http://www.playerpianomusic.com
AWESOME T-SHIRT ►►http://store.dftba.com/collections/player-piano
Facebook ►► http://www.facebook.com/playerpianovideos
Twitter ►► http://www.twitter.com/playerpianovids
Official Website ►► http://www.playerpianomusic.com
For SERIOUS Business Inquiries only: playerpianomusic (at) gmail.com
Music Arranged and Performed by: Sonya Belousova
Video Produced and Directed by: Tom Grey
Cinematography by: Ryan Meyer
NES Piano by: Megan Burns
Executive Producer: Adam Mitropoulos
Executive Producer: Jesse Kretchmer
Recording Engineer: Jeremy Underwood
Music recorded at the Firehouse Recording Studios
Mixing Engineer: Guillermo Marin
I have a license to use Nintendo’s content in this video through the Nintendo Creators Program. This video is not sponsored or endorsed by Nintendo, but any advertising revenue from this video will be shared with Nintendo.
Celebrate 30 years of Super Mario Bros with this piano arrangement of original Mario Themes on a custom Nintendo Piano by Composer & Pianist Sonya Belousova and Director Tom Grey.
Sheet Music ►► http://mnot.es/Player-Piano
Patreon ►► http://www.patreon.com/playerpiano
Download Our Songs ►► http://www.playerpianomusic.com
AWESOME T-SHIRT ►►http://store.dftba.com/collections/player-piano
Facebook ►► http://www.facebook.com/playerpianovideos
Twitter ►► http://www.twitter.com/playerpianovids
Official Website ►► http://www.playerpianomusic.com
For SERIOUS Business Inquiries only: playerpianomusic (at) gmail.com
Music Arranged and Performed by: Sonya Belousova
Video Produced and Directed by: Tom Grey
Cinematography by: Ryan Meyer
NES Piano by: Megan Burns
Executive Producer: Adam Mitropoulos
Executive Producer: Jesse Kretchmer
Recording Engineer: Jeremy Underwood
Music recorded at the Firehouse Recording Studios
Mixing Engineer: Guillermo Marin
I have a license to use Nintendo’s content in this video through the Nintendo Creators Program. This video is not sponsored or endorsed by Nintendo, but any advertising revenue from this video will be shared with Nintendo.
Today a mother asked me if her 14 years old daughter could sing with me. But I didn't expect her voice to sound like this 🥹
#piano #singing #dernieredanse #ind...
Today a mother asked me if her 14 years old daughter could sing with me. But I didn't expect her voice to sound like this 🥹
#piano #singing #dernieredanse #indila #publicreaction
Today a mother asked me if her 14 years old daughter could sing with me. But I didn't expect her voice to sound like this 🥹
#piano #singing #dernieredanse #indila #publicreaction
This was my latest project. I picked it and 68 rolls of music up for little of nothing because it didn't work. Honestly, it didn't take much to get it running again. There was a rats nest in the vacuum box that had wedged into the motor brushes and didn't allow contact. A general cleanup, adjustment, and repairing a few parts had it in pretty good shape.
In this video, I do my best to explain the inner workings of my player piano, and how it works. The roll used to demonstrate is QRS roll 8818: Blue Tango by Leroy Anderson, played by J. Lawrence Cook.
At the time of uploading this, my channel is nearing 100 subscribers and 100,000 total views. I am incredibly thankful to all my subscribers and viewers for getting me here. I had no idea that I would have that many views/subscribers when I started uploading videos.
Celebrate 30 years of Super Mario Bros with this piano arrangement of original Mario Themes on a custom Nintendo Piano by Composer & Pianist Sonya Belousova and Director Tom Grey.
Sheet Music ►► http://mnot.es/Player-Piano
Patreon ►► http://www.patreon.com/playerpiano
Download Our Songs ►► http://www.playerpianomusic.com
AWESOME T-SHIRT ►►http://store.dftba.com/collections/player-piano
Facebook ►► http://www.facebook.com/playerpianovideos
Twitter ►► http://www.twitter.com/playerpianovids
Official Website ►► http://www.playerpianomusic.com
For SERIOUS Business Inquiries only: playerpianomusic (at) gmail.com
Music Arranged and Performed by: Sonya Belousova
Video Produced and Directed by: Tom Grey
Cinematography by: Ryan Meyer
NES Piano by: Megan Burns
Executive Producer: Adam Mitropoulos
Executive Producer: Jesse Kretchmer
Recording Engineer: Jeremy Underwood
Music recorded at the Firehouse Recording Studios
Mixing Engineer: Guillermo Marin
I have a license to use Nintendo’s content in this video through the Nintendo Creators Program. This video is not sponsored or endorsed by Nintendo, but any advertising revenue from this video will be shared with Nintendo.
Today a mother asked me if her 14 years old daughter could sing with me. But I didn't expect her voice to sound like this 🥹
#piano #singing #dernieredanse #indila #publicreaction
A player piano (also known as pianola) is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music recorded on perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls, with more modern implementations using MIDI encoded music stored on floppy disks or CDs. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass-produced piano for the home in the late 19th and early 20th century. Sales peaked in 1924, then declined as the improvement in phonograph recordings due to electrical recording methods developed in the mid-1920s. The advent of electrical amplification in home music reproduction via radio in the same period helped cause their eventual decline in popularity, and the stock market crash of 1929 virtually wiped out production.
Antecedents
The idea of automatic musical devices can be traced back many centuries, and the use of pinned barrels to operate percussion mechanisms (such as striking bells in a clock) was perfected long before the invention of the piano. These devices were later extended to operate musical boxes, which contain a set of tuned metal teeth plucked by the player mechanism.
Lucy went down on a farm, tried to milk a cow, Though she tried she couldn't get the hang of it somehow. The farmer looked at Lucy and murmured with a frown, "Well you just hang on tightly, gal, and she'll jump up and down." Chorus: Oh, gather in the mushrooms, put 'em in a pot, Pop 'em in the oven an serve 'em piping ho-ot. To make herself more beautiful she thought she'd bathe in milk, She said, "I'll have a bathful," to her milkman Jackie Wilke. He said, "Do you want it pasturized before I pour it in?" She said, "No, I'll be happy if it comes up to my chin." Chorus The farmer called at Lucy one dark and stormy night, She said, "You are too old for me because your hair is white." He looked into her eyes and then he knew he'd have to tell her, "There's snow upon the roof but there's a fire in the cellar!" Chorus She took him in the kitchen, she was his turtle dove, And then she started cooking dumplings on the stove. She wore a low cut dress, oh it was as green as clover, He jumped with glee 'cause he could see her dumplings boiling over. Chorus She said, "You give me half a crown I will read your palm," And then she saw his love line went half way up his arm. So now she's changed her prices, although she's just as willing, It's big fat men at two pound ten and little boys a shilling. Oh, gather in the mushrooms, put 'em in a pot, Pop 'em in the oven and serve 'em piping hot, We're gonna gather in the mushrooms, put 'em in a pot,
With space at a premium, a Port Chalmers museum cannot afford to keep a collection of recently discovered pianola rolls and is looking for someone to put them to use ... .