That’s lovely! Sounds like The Keel Row, doesn’t it. Thanks for showing and playing it for us ❤
@PeterMackett Жыл бұрын
Made by Canon Wintle who was a clergyman, he made or restored many of these instruments over the years and there are still skilled restorers who could get it to play properly again, most were of Italian manufacture but make in the UK in either Clerkenwell, London or Manchester, famous makes included Varetto, Pasquale, Tomasso, Antonelli and Chiappa who are still in business making punched card music books for fair organs.
@electronicsandmusic2077 Жыл бұрын
please tune it
@Apache98217 ай бұрын
I didn’t know Michael Caine was into this sort of thing. 😂
@8546Ken8 ай бұрын
It doesn't sound like a tune. I wonder if the barrel is half way between two tunes.
@greasylimpet33238 ай бұрын
You're right, it sounds like a mess!
@lineshaftrestorations79037 ай бұрын
Yes it's in the cracks. Kinda sounds like some of my piano skills. 😂
@neilanyon47925 ай бұрын
Definitely "Keel Row" but sounds like some missing notes. A few wrong notes possibly due to poor tuning.
@8546Ken5 ай бұрын
@@lineshaftrestorations7903 it seems that would be a simple adjustment. The demonstration would be much more impressive if it were playing properly.
@frankgordon88296 ай бұрын
To think this was ultra-modern at one time! An instrument that actually plays itself!
@keithcitizen4855 Жыл бұрын
These things ended up rotted or full of furniture beetle - imagine people would go nuts pinning the barrels.
@andrewbarrett15374 ай бұрын
I know this film is edited, but still... look at how fast Mr. Tomasso could mark the positions for the pins on the cylinder for a new tune!: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mq6ToKyUtZ3TpaM.html
@Contantq7 ай бұрын
Mine needs to be tuned.
@8546Ken5 ай бұрын
I would like to see the process of pinning that barrel. One tune would be hard enough, but ten tunes?
@andrewbarrett15374 ай бұрын
Often the cylinder would be taken out, old tunes/pins stripped off, put on a lathe to true it up, new marking paper wrapped around the cylinder, and then put back in the piano, marked while installed in the piano, and then taken out again and pinned. Here this British Pathe' film shows an edited version of this process, with Mr. Antonio Tomasso, the noteur (mechanical-music music arranger). Note that he uses a tattered copy of what appears to be the original commercial published sheet music for a tune. The other 'twiddly bits' (ornamentation) of his arrangement, appears to have been all in his head (!!!): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mq6ToKyUtZ3TpaM.html
@12TribesUnite7 ай бұрын
THIS IS AWESOME! shared
@Le_Mron7 ай бұрын
bro sounds like sniper tf2
@mikebrickwork2407 Жыл бұрын
they never hold a tune , for more then a hour , had more than one over the years its said in there day , piano men were given money to move on , now you can see why , i think this one needs a new pin block or over size pegs , is hard to name the tune but i bet its the best one on the barrel . but nice item thanks for the vid , at the right price i would give it a good home and a rebuild ,, but a lot of work ,,,
@MagicPianos Жыл бұрын
Make an Offer.....
@andrewbarrett15374 ай бұрын
These actually held tune fairly well when new. Not like those with a full perimeter iron piano plate, but still pretty good. If they lost tuning really quickly, they would not have sold/rented so many and they would not have originally been popular. The same goes for wood-framed hand played pianos. They HAD to hold a tune fairly well when new, or they would not have made it out of the showroom door. The phenomenon of street musicians playing a barrel piano in bad shape, and being paid 'to move on', came from tonedeaf and/or poor grinders, and/or unscrupulous rental agencies, which did not give instruments proper service, and thus allowed them to go out sounding poorly. Obviously that practice gave all street pianos a bad name (a similar thing happened with street barrel organs as well). However most of these instruments are between 90 and 150 years old (1870s-1920s), and thus I agree that a new pinblock is most likely needed, if it was never previously replaced. Driving in oversize pins might just widen the splits in the block and make it even less stable in tuning, so a new block is really the best way to go. Brian Thornton in TN has rebuilt many barrel pianos, and he almost always does extensive work on the frame of the instrument, before turning to the action, cylinder cosmetics etc so that it is ready to go for another several decades.
@deanevangelista63596 ай бұрын
It’s an early, analog sequencer.
@jrzzrj Жыл бұрын
👍
@ezion677 ай бұрын
Sound like the mechanism is missing the string dampers. If not, the notes sustain way too long, this messes up the tune.
@andrewbarrett15374 ай бұрын
Actually most barrel pianos do not have dampers except sometimes gravity dampers on the lowest notes (triangular pieces of wood with felt, hinged at the top, which bounce away when the strings are played). A barrel piano is usually not a modern piano with a regular piano action as we know it today, with a few exceptions (the European Pianovo, and American Tonophone, are major exceptions, which use intermediate mechanical or pneumatic amplification to play a fairly normal upright piano with a fairly normal upright piano action). Instead, most barrel pianos, with springloaded hammers and mostly no dampers, are basically a loud mechanical hammered dulcimer. So although they were supposed to sound _good_ (well, in tune and musical), they were not intended to sound like a modern piano at all, as we think of it.
@carlotadecastro7420 Жыл бұрын
Organillo _piano
@matthewpalmer98206 ай бұрын
needs to be tuned
@iulianispas86347 ай бұрын
Sound random like popcorn tune it please
@norbertk.14736 ай бұрын
🤔🤔Naja! Also das sind nur ungeordnete Tonfolgen, wo man nicht identifizieren kann, um was für ein Musikstück es sich dabei handelt. höre 3:06 🤔🤔Well! So these are just disordered sequences of notes where you can't identify what kind of piece of music it is. listen 3:06
@sithgameryt819111 ай бұрын
No es organillo del todo le faltan las campanillas
@user-fx9bf7tc6c6 ай бұрын
Надо же, древние лбди научились записывать на бревно.