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Well, yes. I am quite aware of how it works and this one is a bit more complicated. Not only does it have the player piano and trio of violins, but this one also contains several ranks of pipes and drums to accompany the music. It's the last remaining Violina-Orchestra in the world!

@@aspensmusicandrestoration The Violin trio does work like a Hurdy Gurdy. Because of the Cast Iron Bow Wheel & Mechanical Tangents. The Violins can be strung w/ your favorite string sets, e.g. N719 silver strings.

@@RockStarOscarStern634 Yes, I understand that...

@@aspensmusicandrestoration I do have a Hurdy Gurdy which could be a good thing to compare it with

@@OttoVonChesterfield234 If I could have, I would have. I was on a limited time frame and frankly was just glad to be there and see it in person. If I were doing more of a documentation trip and recording all of the rolls, I would have also brought my heavy equipment and microphones as well as warming it up first.

They have to do it for time's sake. Everyone there doesn't like that they have to switch it off but they have to keep the tours quick. She was very nice and also let me hear some after the tour without shutting them off.

As Aspen already noted, the tours are 45 minutes because cruise guides keep lowering the time limit the guests spend there. In that time you cannot possibly play the entire songs of all instruments, as you would have to spend 4 hours in order to listen to all the full songs. It isn't "ignorance", it's simply keeping track of the time limitations. Besides in the main tour all except three play the full songs.

@@lukesvintagetrains5495 Hmm, they have the one with 2 sets of violins, they have the oldest one ever found, they have one with a roll switcher, and they have this one though it’s slightly different. So I guess 3 violinas with an honorary 4th.

@@aspensmusicandrestoration wow! They are one of my favorite orchestrions, and to have 4 of them in the same place is really cool

@@lukesvintagetrains5495 they also have the world's only original Popper "Violinovo"

@@aaronb5060 wow!

I got a video of it playing when I was there. It's not a whole song, but it still works! Just needs to be tuned.

@@aspensmusicandrestoration Cool

This roll is not made in 1906, that is the catalog number.

Hey! Sorry I didn't reply earlier. I actually do play Roblox and model mechanical music instruments in games where I can. Not a huge fan of Roblox Studio, so I usually use the game "Town Debug" by UnicodeDecode or Hapless Studios for my building stuff.

@@aspensmusicandrestoration Very nice!

Thank you! Unfortunately this isn’t my piano and was simply one I found in the attic of my school and restored. It doesn’t work anymore due to some critters eating all of the cloth and some leather but my piano at home should be done relatively soon so I’ll be reuploading all of these songs on that one.

@@aspensmusicandrestoration Oh cool! A shame that the piano was ruined again, you should try and get it into your possession since you know it plays!

@@PiotrBarcz I asked the school multiple times if I could bring the piano to my house so I could give it proper care but they refused since it belonged to one of the founders of the school. I guess they’d rather have it rot on their premises than thrive in a student’s home.

@@aspensmusicandrestoration The idiots... and I don't feel bad about calling them as such.

My piano should be done within the next few months. Unfortunately, I do not have a working player piano right now but when I do I'll do this! If you do it in a midi program I'd love to have the midi file :)

​@@aspensmusicandrestorationHi, I didn't see your comment! Guess what - I actually just got my own copy of this roll! I will make a video of it in a few weeks. And yes, whenever I find time to transcribe it I would be happy to send you a MIDI file. Hopefully the mechanics of that work out okay.

@@rowanbelt3612 Thank you so much!

I love this piano a lot too. Sadly it's not mine nor does it work anymore. This piano is located in the attic of my school and no longer works due to the uncontrolled climate and abundance of rodents that ate thru all the fabric and leather over last summer. My personal player piano should be done within the next few months and I'll be rerecording all of my rolls on that one. I also plan on adding a few more instruments to the piano.

@@aspensmusicandrestoration are you going to document how you'll add more instruments? I was thinking about doing that to mine too but i dont really know where to start

@@OttoVonChesterfield234 yes! Just gotta have my piano done first 😅

Could be, but there was actually a brand name on the bars themselves I didn’t see until after I uploaded that showed a brand name belonging to a popular percussion brand in the 1960s.

No, this is a home made project based on the Nelson-Wiggin folded design.

@@aspensmusicandrestoration Probably Deagan bars

@@SeeburgMusic Makes a lot of sense for it to be homemade. I’m still going to restore it but also probably modify it to make it better since it is pretty sloppy.

I recorded this roll on the player piano at my school which unfortunately set itself on fire recently due to a power surge. The bellows cloth burned but everything else is still intact. I won't be restoring it again since it will probably be thrown out by administration soon :(

@AspenPianola that's terrible to hear! Hopefully, everything is OK. But you got a recording of it which is so great. A bit of irony I suppose, being "That's Life"

I haven't seen a xylophone with the beaters on both sides either. That's another thing that clued me in to its origin. I think someone just tried to throw it together but it must have worked for some time since it has wear and tear.

I mostly removed the hammer noises since they were so loud, they overpowered the rest of the song and you couldn't hear the melody. That's just me, though. Thanks for watching!

huh

We had a world war 20 years ago?

He actually still makes it if you want to buy one from him. I have the link in the desc if you need it! When I say I went to get better gear for the channel, I mostly mean in terms of setup such as a better camera and maybe some directional microphones. It won’t always be with this particular piano, but for a while it will be. My piano should be finished hopefully by the end of this year. Also, I say finished even though it most likely will never be “finished” for me. I plan to add to it and add things like flute pipes that play along with the piano and maybe some other instruments. I know for sure a tack rail will be there, but the pipes will take a while to make and design.

They do, it’s entertaining to just watch them pass by the tracker bar!

I keep looking for your email or a way to get ahold of you. At one point, you had written that you were looking to buy rolls. I have plenty I would trade or give you. I don't know where you're located, tho.

@Skgwgaietto Feel free to email me at aspenglickman@gmail.com.