This piano has a surprise. It is a dual role, Duo Art roll player! www.amica.org
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@aknabea15 жыл бұрын
Every time I watch this piano, I love it more, as well as the music it plays. Thanks for the video
@nateblubaugh72910 жыл бұрын
Gotta love the rich sound of a Steinway.
@ampicoab12 жыл бұрын
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.
@PiotrBarcz4 жыл бұрын
I love the over-head shot of the spinning Welte Pump!
@aknabea16 жыл бұрын
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)
@cntryby815 жыл бұрын
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!
@Organsk8er13 жыл бұрын
Wow...what a wonderful piano! I have never seen a dual-system piano like this though...fascinating!
@williamholzman7285 Жыл бұрын
Just Friends, sounds fabulous.
@MarzipanSamurai14 жыл бұрын
I had NO idea Steinway made players...such GORGEOUS tone!! Thank you for sharing :)
@ozzietadziu3 жыл бұрын
Steinway never built "Players". They supplied Aeolian with specially constructed pianos which would accept the Due Art player mechanism.
@PiotrBarcz4 жыл бұрын
A Welte AND a Duo! That is one heck of a piano!
@a320214 Жыл бұрын
Lovely !!
@joek57842 жыл бұрын
Beautiful!!!
@ralphblunt39679 жыл бұрын
I had a Welte Babygrand which I sold and bought a Steinway AR model Duo Art. This one's great !
@ampicoab16 жыл бұрын
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.
@preciousjey14 жыл бұрын
damm i need me one of these when i get lazy to play
@ampicoab15 жыл бұрын
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.
@jimthompson74025 жыл бұрын
"Just Friends" is the musical number.
@albertpeckham87083 жыл бұрын
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.
@ampicoab17 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comments, the roll is a recut, by the brothers Leedy, but the original was a Welte coded roll.
@cubanm819 жыл бұрын
Beautiful.
@ampicoab13 жыл бұрын
@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#.
@seeburgman14 жыл бұрын
very beautiful...thank you for the video
@ampicoab17 жыл бұрын
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.
@ampicoab13 жыл бұрын
@WelteMax Play 88-note rolls by putting tape over the Duo Art expression holes. Select the Duo Art position, and play the roll.
@mufilmfest9 жыл бұрын
The first song is My Sin. The second is The Best Things in Life Are Free. After that is Just Friends to the end.
@JOELwindows77 жыл бұрын
Now you have Spirio!
@ampicoab13 жыл бұрын
@simersonic1 Absolutely yes. There is no difference.
@ampicoab15 жыл бұрын
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.
@jbroth385028 күн бұрын
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.
@screensavers79427 жыл бұрын
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?
@313EDO15 жыл бұрын
wow...it's so nice
@ClassicalOJazz15 жыл бұрын
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.
@56Packman17 жыл бұрын
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
@jamesten14 жыл бұрын
@MarzipanSamurai Actually, they didn't. Aeolian made the player mechanisms for Steinway's "Duo Art" series. It was, however, a successful collaboration.
@heresjohnny88817 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@ampicoab16 жыл бұрын
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.
@RedDawgEsq12 жыл бұрын
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?
@lazer5813 жыл бұрын
@sept0988 Philistine!
@johnrussell87498 жыл бұрын
Neat!
@WillBrigg14 жыл бұрын
is there anyway i could get hold of a sheet music version of this song? it's so good
@stevenjewell473310 жыл бұрын
i see,xtra holes added for welte.i thought it possible.now there is proof
@octigonipus Жыл бұрын
Wish i knew what song that was
@octigonipus Жыл бұрын
And as soon as i sent that the reel popped up on the screen with the title card.... Awesome
@a320214 Жыл бұрын
@@octigonipus first one is "MY SIN (De Sylva/Brown/Henderson)"
@TheBill333310 жыл бұрын
Great piano, but the recording might be a bit over-modulating detracting from the beautiful sound.
@aaron1a1213 жыл бұрын
At 0:32 The haunted piano is being played by a GHOST!
@ampicoab16 жыл бұрын
Very rare
@kyokutyou20074 жыл бұрын
How many those dual roll player made? It must be really rare.
@jlblcm15 жыл бұрын
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!
@kasteman113 жыл бұрын
@ampicoab Like Antiques Roadshow appraisers circling-it-like-moths-to-the-porch-light rare. lol
@thechelsey10013 жыл бұрын
nice! I have a 1913 player piano... but did that cover come up automaticly? or did somebody open it?
@StylishGirl7912 жыл бұрын
how much do these pianos cost?
@steinwaygrande39719 жыл бұрын
I wonder if there is still a demand for these duo art pianos ?? I would like the Yamaha with the disc Klavier.
@keriboyjs7 жыл бұрын
Steinwaygrande are you for real? A Yamaha can not even come close to the sound a Steinway can produce, it is like trying to compare a Toyota with a Bentley. 😂😂😂
@steinwaygrande39717 жыл бұрын
I guess its a matter of personal taste. Fazioli is taking over from Steinway and has a vastly superior tone and sound. Every note on the Fazioli is crystal clear where as the Steinway just fades away.
@WelteMax13 жыл бұрын
@WelteMax so what happens if you would paly any 88-note on it ;)?
@MrJeremiahValenzuela13 жыл бұрын
whats the title of the third music
@WelteMax13 жыл бұрын
so it's just luck that the re-roll track is on the same tracker hole on both?=)