Joe Rinaudo performing at the American Fotoplayer - Medley of Rags: "Junk Man Rag" by Jay Roberts, "Movie Rag" by J. S. Zamecnik, "International Rag" by Irving Berlin, "Entertainer's Rag" by Jay Roberts
Imagine how that would actually sound on an actual silent film screening. Organist playing this instrument and the moving picture on the screen. Incredible :)
I laughed out loud at the slide whistle pull, that's amazing. I keep thinking I've heard every sound this instrument can make, and then I watch some more videos.
Nobody on earth can watch this and not be entertained. Therapeutic not just because the upbeat music but the pure joy of seeing someone doing what they truly love to do. I always watch to the very end to see his exhausted smile and laughter. Hahaha
See how he rotates his wrist when yanking two chords in one hand to emphasize the rhythm by changing the balance between the two sounds. Pretty cool to see he's putting that much thought into every action... unless he's just doing that as a dance move and flourish, but subconciously our brains do link these movements to sounds even when we don't realize it, it's part of feeling the music and letting the instrument be not just an extension of your body, but your existence.
one day no one in the world will know how to play or even repair this amazing piece of history. They will just admire how complex and amazing this music instrument was.
This young man is finding, and fixing these marvels, making his own replacement parts and using other photoplayer parts he has come across to do it all. Check him out. th-cam.com/video/17CdDOedpaI/w-d-xo.html
You sir are having too much fun. You are amazing. Your love of the instrument and the music comes through. Wish our local movie theater had one of these in it. The organ is not enough!
You gotta Imagine the challenge it is to sell a house in that neighborhood “So we have a backyard with a tool shed included,5 living rooms including one with a mezzanine , a security exit on roof of the attic, a window in the kitchen with straight view on Toon Town’s nightclub”
This is an American photoplayer which replace the solo piano as an accompianment for silent movies.This sadly had a very short life as along came a certain Robert hope Jones who invented the Hope Jones unit Orchestra or " Mighty Wurlitzer as we know it which superseded the photoplayer. The rest is History!
Andrew Smith Mostly correct in terms of the popularity of the instruments, but Hope-Jones built his first organs in England before 1900. He then moved to the USA and made a limited number of instruments with his small firm which went out of business around 1908 (I think) and was purchased by Wurlitzer. I think Wurlitzer built the first Hope-Jones unit orchestra pipe organ in 1910, and their first One-man Orchestra (trademark) photoplayer in 1913. The American Fotoplayer was invented by the Van Valkenburg brothers of California around 1910, and first built commercially around 1912, I think (Joe would have the exact date). Other builders like Seeburg introduced their line of Fotoplayers around 1914 or a year or two later. The greatest era of photoplayer popularity seems to have been around 1914-1921, although a few (like this one) were built later in the 1920s. The theatre pipe organs were not very successful at first due to their large size, cost, difficulty of playing (being unfamiliar to most organists used to classical and romantic pipe organs), and especially since most early "nickelodeon" theatres were of the small to medium size. By 1921, however, the theatre organ had definitely overtaken the photoplayer in popularity and quite a number of large photoplayers were taken in on partial trade for a new (small) theatre pipe organ around this time and later. Most of the remainder of photoplayers were junked after sound pictures came in and the depression hit, frequently with the piano being gutted to resell / use as a used "straight" (hand played) piano (some of these still turn up today), the drums repurposed for drummers, and occasionally some of the pipes repurposed in church organs, and the remainder destroyed. This was more true of Fotoplayers since, being in the orchestra pit, they were more "in the way" than were most theatre pipe organs which had the majority of the organ installed remotely in a chamber, with only the console itself in the orchestra pit, frequently having the organs remain intact in the chamber thru the revival of the 1950s/70s, so long as the theatre itself wasn't demolished, remodeled, or had air conditioning equipment etc installed in the organ chambers, which would then mean sale, removal, possibly junking of the organ.
Wow! My grandmother used to play the piano to accompany silent films in DC at the Liberty Theater on North Capitol in the late teens. She would have loved it. In her words "No fool no fun!".
Some people can see it funny, some people think it's from Satan. I think it's one of the most useful application for mechanical computer. An early synthesizer.
+DeeJayMontevideo oh come on.. Even at the end Joe is grinning and blasting the horn with joy.. Go get your humour bypass checked out at the hospital you stuffy git..
THANK YOU for sharing this wonderful instrument!!! i got to see some silent movies accompanied by pipe organ in the late 50's but never a fotoplayer - this is just awesome
My goodness...what a fantastic machine. My compliments to Mr Rinaudo for holding on to this beauty (is there a Mrs Rinaudo? if I were she, I would def let you keep this thing around) you can't have antiques like this if you're living in apartments or those "tiny homes". This is why beautiful old things are disappearing all the millenials refuse to buy them or move them to their new homes.
This is the song that plays everytime the guy who created this place...i just like to imagine this plays when they are all being idiots...especially the older ones that should know better like atoms or molecules.....
I would be 6'3" and weigh 82.5 lbs if I had to play this everyday.. LOL..Great job, Joe ! A great play, from great time in history..I subbed for sure...AHHhhh- Ooooo- gah !
The slidewhistle noise makes me so happy, it's an inexplicable feeling of pure childish mirth and merriment
I really need to know the exact name of that noise because I love it.
I thinks it so gay.
@@TheJakeman789I just laugh when I hear it, it’s such a stupid sound 😂😂
@@TheJakeman789 You are gay
RIght?!?!
He’s the DJ at the rave of madness that is going on in my head.
😂😂😂😂😂
Imagine how that would actually sound on an actual silent film screening. Organist playing this instrument and the moving picture on the screen. Incredible :)
actually actual
@ak.bloood you got a beautiful mind
I laughed out loud at the slide whistle pull, that's amazing. I keep thinking I've heard every sound this instrument can make, and then I watch some more videos.
It has a klaxon also lol
The only way Joe's neighbours remain sane is by watching silent movies on loop.
LOL No doubt!!
😂😂😂
Everything in my life has lead up to finding this channel. He's tearing it up!
Nobody on earth can watch this and not be entertained. Therapeutic not just because the upbeat music but the pure joy of seeing someone doing what they truly love to do. I always watch to the very end to see his exhausted smile and laughter. Hahaha
See how he rotates his wrist when yanking two chords in one hand to emphasize the rhythm by changing the balance between the two sounds. Pretty cool to see he's putting that much thought into every action... unless he's just doing that as a dance move and flourish, but subconciously our brains do link these movements to sounds even when we don't realize it, it's part of feeling the music and letting the instrument be not just an extension of your body, but your existence.
“So, what instrument do you play?”
“Everything. At once.”
I guess you could say... he is a one man band.
"Yes"
@@Pigroooo a one man circus
When you have a quiet night at home with your sweetie, get a glass of wine, dim the lights… and put this on
If you're both cool, you are the one playing it and she is enjoying it.
WINNING THE GIRLS 101 RIGHT HERE
"songs you can fuck to"
Until u pull out your wang and ur girl make the drooping slide whistle sound effect
It Is such a nice and comforting date I made it in last Christmas dinner, it was a so joyful night
one day no one in the world will know how to play or even repair this amazing piece of history. They will just admire how complex and amazing this music instrument was.
Exactly what I was thinking. Must be preserved somehow.
This young man is finding, and fixing these marvels, making his own replacement parts and using other photoplayer parts he has come across to do it all. Check him out.
th-cam.com/video/17CdDOedpaI/w-d-xo.html
^ this. so sad
"so, how many sounds you want this fotoplayer to be able to do?"
"yes"
Ah yes, some music will soothe my jangled nerves. (*plays this video*)
You sir are having too much fun. You are amazing. Your love of the instrument and the music comes through. Wish our local movie theater had one of these in it. The organ is not enough!
Who needs a Band when you have JOE and the FOTOPLAYER 😁👍🏻😎🤟
All of the greatest achievements of human invention has lead to the creation of this magnificent machine
You gotta Imagine the challenge it is to sell a house in that neighborhood
“So we have a backyard with a tool shed included,5 living rooms including one with a mezzanine , a security exit on roof of the attic, a window in the kitchen with straight view on Toon Town’s nightclub”
there is something about this that bring so much joy to my heart.
This man is a national treasure!! So cool...
How could you ever be bored with one of these in your house? Endless amusement.
Zweeeeeeeeehhhh* best sound ever 02:19
I like the one better at 4:24-4:26
You're the Van Halen of American Fotoplayers :-) Awesome performance!
what's drake doin in the studio 👆👆👆⁉⁉⁉⁉⁉⁉⁉
God help the neighbors who live downstairs every time this thing gets rolling! Hit It Joe!!!
This things got everything! Even a car horn!
Yeah. GREAT!
2 of them in fact.
They were used in silent movies actually lol
Toby Fox composing the greatest song you've ever heard
"So you want to create a machine that can make more sounds than a
100 person band?"
"Yep"
"... ok ... (wispers) someone call the mental ward."
This is an American photoplayer which replace the solo piano as an accompianment for silent movies.This sadly had a very short life as along came a certain Robert hope Jones who invented the Hope Jones unit Orchestra or " Mighty Wurlitzer as we know it which superseded the photoplayer. The rest is History!
Andrew Smith Mostly correct in terms of the popularity of the instruments, but Hope-Jones built his first organs in England before 1900.
He then moved to the USA and made a limited number of instruments with his small firm which went out of business around 1908 (I think) and was purchased by Wurlitzer.
I think Wurlitzer built the first Hope-Jones unit orchestra pipe organ in 1910, and their first One-man Orchestra (trademark) photoplayer in 1913.
The American Fotoplayer was invented by the Van Valkenburg brothers of California around 1910, and first built commercially around 1912, I think (Joe would have the exact date).
Other builders like Seeburg introduced their line of Fotoplayers around 1914 or a year or two later.
The greatest era of photoplayer popularity seems to have been around 1914-1921, although a few (like this one) were built later in the 1920s.
The theatre pipe organs were not very successful at first due to their large size, cost, difficulty of playing (being unfamiliar to most organists used to classical and romantic pipe organs), and especially since most early "nickelodeon" theatres were of the small to medium size.
By 1921, however, the theatre organ had definitely overtaken the photoplayer in popularity and quite a number of large photoplayers were taken in on partial trade for a new (small) theatre pipe organ around this time and later.
Most of the remainder of photoplayers were junked after sound pictures came in and the depression hit, frequently with the piano being gutted to resell / use as a used "straight" (hand played) piano (some of these still turn up today), the drums repurposed for drummers, and occasionally some of the pipes repurposed in church organs, and the remainder destroyed.
This was more true of Fotoplayers since, being in the orchestra pit, they were more "in the way" than were most theatre pipe organs which had the majority of the organ installed remotely in a chamber, with only the console itself in the orchestra pit, frequently having the organs remain intact in the chamber thru the revival of the 1950s/70s, so long as the theatre itself wasn't demolished, remodeled, or had air conditioning equipment etc installed in the organ chambers, which would then mean sale, removal, possibly junking of the organ.
I think it predates this instrument, but it would be nice to hear some of Cuphead soundtracks interpreted in the fotoplayer.
Joe the legend
This man should remembered
He gets more exercise than any musician I've ever seen. Great music, great instrument, great musician.
Joe Rinaudo and Marc Rebillet need to get together for a jam session.
this instrument exudes silliness and wonder
Sir, you look so happy, and I want to know how you got to playing this. I've never enjoyed a video so much in my life.
That would be a neighbour of my dreams haha. I would gladly let him stay at my place for free, crazy bugger!
This is what people need on a cold, windy, wet, winter's day to cheer them up!
Wow! My grandmother used to play the piano to accompany silent films in DC at the Liberty Theater on North Capitol in the late teens. She would have loved it. In her words "No fool no fun!".
Some people can see it funny, some people think it's from Satan. I think it's one of the most useful application for mechanical computer. An early synthesizer.
I blast this on my car stereo like a maniac! I love this!
4:24
OMGGGGGG 4:24
🤣🤣🤣 Best Part xD
What better word to describe this than whimsical
4:24
I want to transcribe that for percussion ensemble. Maybe with marimba and vibraphone for melody even.
The first part sounds a lot like something you would hear when you are early to a circus
Bro’s playing the doohickie thingamajig watchamacallit 5000
This made me laugh out loud with pleasure. More please!!
I laughed with PLEASURE, you dolt! And I don't find The Three Stooges funny at all.
+DeeJayMontevideo oh come on.. Even at the end Joe is grinning and blasting the horn with joy.. Go get your humour bypass checked out at the hospital you stuffy git..
+DeeJayMontevideo lol you are such an idiot
It's like a Fisher-Price Activity Centre for grown-ups!
If ADHD was an instrument.
THANK YOU for sharing this wonderful instrument!!! i got to see some silent movies accompanied by pipe organ in the late 50's but never a fotoplayer - this is just awesome
If I pay your rent, would you move into the apartment above my brother?
I am tired. I really could do with going to bed but there are so many of these I can't turn it off
Also including "I'm on the Rag"!
4:22 epic yanking
That's like a piano with all the plugins and the special percussion and organ pack add-on installed. Quite a download....from a truck!
turn the speed up and it gets even better
-buying a new home- The seller "Oh is a quiet home your neighbour is an old retired man .. "... At 02 AM..... Is ragtime time baby.....
i dont know why but this sounds like mario music
I want to learn to make songs on these so badly
Joe! You are my hero ‼️❤️🙌😆
I want this in my bedroom, to play when wifey is going to sleep.
LOL and just WHY would you want to do THAT, pray tell?
black midi from the 90s?
I laughed so hard when he accidentally turned the light on.
This gentleman genuinely plays this instrument. WoW! Thankee very much.
FUCK IT UP JOE MY MAN OFF THE SHITS
Saturday Morning Cartoons with American Fotoplayer Sound Effects (New Year’s Eve Special)
The perfect instrument for kids with hyperactivity disorder.
Such a jovial whimsical machine! Joe, I have upmost respect for you (coming from an accordion player) I love this & want one really bad
My goodness...what a fantastic machine. My compliments to Mr Rinaudo for holding on to this beauty (is there a Mrs Rinaudo? if I were she, I would def let you keep this thing around) you can't have antiques like this if you're living in apartments or those "tiny homes". This is why beautiful old things are disappearing all the millenials refuse to buy them or move them to their new homes.
My brain while at work
Probably the most crazy instrument in the world but I love it ‼️ ❤️❤️❤️
要するに見た感じピアノがオルガニートみたいな方式で演奏されるカラクリ仕掛けの1人オーケストラ装置？？？
This is the song that plays everytime the guy who created this place...i just like to imagine this plays when they are all being idiots...especially the older ones that should know better like atoms or molecules.....
I was introduced to this instrument all because of Glaggleland
I love you gentleman! This is a big piece of film history. Big Thanks!
Try not to be giddy challenge (impossible)
I was having a terrible night until I saw this. Thank you so much for sharing!
I could replay 4:24 for hours.
"which instrument do you play?"
him:
"the whole orchestra"
How much do you want for this??? I really am interested in one of the American Photoplayers.
Good Lord, how many people are left on the planet that can service/fix these things, let alone play one??
The early 1900s Ipod.
"Early 1900s Ipod?!? You've just proven to me why millennials like you are stupid. Fool! 😠
How is this like an iPOD? Fucktardo.
This plays the song for him but he still is working just as hard. Maybe even harder
Just close your eyes and play it again and you will see Mickey and friends doing a concert
Super Technik.
Im just imagining this instrument at a funeral
Im imagining a bunch of clowns riding a carousel 😂❤
"Thats all folks!"
4:24 wa
This music should be from a rubberhose cartoon from the 1930's
I would be 6'3" and weigh 82.5 lbs if I had to play this everyday.. LOL..Great job, Joe ! A great play, from great time in history..I subbed for sure...AHHhhh- Ooooo- gah !
Yes, he is wonderful...Would love to see him
perform. So great to see this kept on and preserved !
I’m not getting a self-driving car unless it has one of these built into it.
Not all heroes wear capes.
umasimo
Tom and Jerry's sound effects. Feels nostalgic
Most underrated youtuber
The slide whistle makes me laugh every time.
Hahahaha, Music is indeed so FUNtastic!!! Thank you for the FUN of sharing your way of playing music, Joe.
I wish I was his neighbor, after a hard day's work to come home and hear him jammin out lol!!!
For a second there that wolf whistle sounded like a dentist drill
we just need to make a modern 21st century humor version