Every time I watch this piano, I love it more, as well as the music it plays. Thanks for the video

Gotta love the rich sound of a Steinway.

Yes. The stack had three sections. The center section was joined to the treble during Duo Art ops, and joined to the bass during Welte ops.

I love the over-head shot of the spinning Welte Pump!

Love this piece of music as well as how wonderful the old fellow preforms! A great sounding reproducer. Wish all pianos sounded this good! Of course a Steinway does help, but with the Dual expression certainly is unique. Thanks, Wish you could put more of this piano on! Thanks again! Akanabea(John)

A wonderful piano, playing a real feel-good song. I've come back frequently to listen over and over. Thanks for posting this! Please post more!

Wow...what a wonderful piano! I have never seen a dual-system piano like this though...fascinating!

Just Friends, sounds fabulous.

I had NO idea Steinway made players...such GORGEOUS tone!! Thank you for sharing :)

A Welte AND a Duo! That is one heck of a piano!

Lovely !!

Beautiful!!!

I had a Welte Babygrand which I sold and bought a Steinway AR model Duo Art. This one's great !

Thanks for identifying the tunes to all viewers. The two Duo Art samples came from a "Bulletin" roll and were just excerpts anyway. The "Just Friends" Welte roll was played all the way through.

damm i need me one of these when i get lazy to play

The underside is shown at 1:44 thru 1:49. You really can't see the details. What you can see is there is NO empty space! Note an abundance of large hoses throughout the entire underside. The Welte expression unit is above the rear leg, just aft of the electric motor. The curved hoses leading to the center of the stack provide vacuum to the notes that swithch between the bass and treble divisions, depending on the active expression system.

"Just Friends" is the musical number.

Sorry...as some one who owns a restored OR Duo-Art, I also have a restored Mason & Hamlin RBB, which is still my "go-to" reproducer.

Thanks for the comments, the roll is a recut, by the brothers Leedy, but the original was a Welte coded roll.

Beautiful.

@WelteMax Actually, no. The reroll track for the Duo Art is the first hole on the left. For the Welte, it is hole ten from the right side. Obviously, many of the tracker holes have multiple functions, depending on which system is operating. More complex is the division of the the stack. Each system has separate expression for bass and treble, but the divide point is not the same. The Welte has more notes, including low C, on the bass. The Duo Art bass starts at C#.

very beautiful...thank you for the video

This piano is indeed unique with two systems. It is in a private collection and I no longer know its location as the owner has moved. The video was made in 1999.

@WelteMax Play 88-note rolls by putting tape over the Duo Art expression holes. Select the Duo Art position, and play the roll.

The first song is My Sin. The second is The Best Things in Life Are Free. After that is Just Friends to the end.

Now you have Spirio!

@simersonic1 Absolutely yes. There is no difference.

The two systems are different in the manner that the expression is controlled. The coding of the rolls is different also. The Welte has no fixed steps of volume, while the Duo Art has 16 (an oversimplified explanation). There are other differences, too.

How did you get a Welte to play Duo Art rolls? Where are the two Themodist/snakebite holes in the tracker bar? I can't see the two accordion bellows. Are they hidden? Thank you.

What an incredible reproducing piano. Now you just have to figure out how to get an AMPICO drawer and expression units into it! Was this dual system capability factory original?

wow...it's so nice

Old pianists used to record piano rolls on a "desperate" tentative to preserve their performances as they were (obviously) not happy with the state of the audio recordings. Duo-Art, Welte, Ampico and similar "MIDI precursor" systems were not perfect. But listen to that famous Rachmaninoff Prelude, recorded by Rachmaninoff himself, using the Ampico system.

Beautiful--great instrument, great tuning and regulation of both player and piano. Is the roll of "Just Friends" a QRS title that the Gr, er--Leedy bros. encoded for Welte Mignon expression? great video quality. I need to unload some more stuff on ebay and make a (video) hardware upgrade

@MarzipanSamurai Actually, they didn't. Aeolian made the player mechanisms for Steinway's "Duo Art" series. It was, however, a successful collaboration.

you seem to aquired the "Golden Fleese" of Reproducing piano's.Although I am quite aware of Duo-Art & Welte, I have never read or heard of a dual purpose reproducing piano--what a find!!!

Not a hoax. Too bad I don't have more footage. This was taken in 1999, and now I don't know where the piano is located.

Bob, as you noted briefly in an earlier response, the stack division between bass and treble occurs at a different point between Duo-Art and Welte. Was this difference accounted for in the change-over switch, i.e., was the stack division (pneumatically) "moved" in the change-over?

@sept0988 Philistine!

Neat!

is there anyway i could get hold of a sheet music version of this song? it's so good

i see,xtra holes added for welte.i thought it possible.now there is proof

Wish i knew what song that was

Great piano, but the recording might be a bit over-modulating detracting from the beautiful sound.

At 0:32 The haunted piano is being played by a GHOST!

Very rare

How many those dual roll player made? It must be really rare.

Do you have pictures of underneath the piano on a website somewhere. I would love to see how they fit all those parts in underneath the piano!

@ampicoab Like Antiques Roadshow appraisers circling-it-like-moths-to-the-porch-light rare. lol

nice! I have a 1913 player piano... but did that cover come up automaticly? or did somebody open it?

how much do these pianos cost?

I wonder if there is still a demand for these duo art pianos ?? I would like the Yamaha with the disc Klavier.

@WelteMax so what happens if you would paly any 88-note on it ;)?

whats the title of the third music

so it's just luck that the re-roll track is on the same tracker hole on both?=)

Can you say which songs are played?

what are the songs and who are the composers?

what are the songs played on there?