This is fantastic! I have been wanting a vorsetzer for years.
@playerpianofavorites8999
6 ай бұрын
Not just the”Vorsetzer” is perfect, the roll also beautifull 👍🏻
@scottgray6276
6 ай бұрын
This number was in, “The 5 O’clock Girl”, which l saw a revival of on Broadway, back in the 80s. I sat behind Ruth Gordon!
@masklavier
6 ай бұрын
Very cool song on a wonderful machine!
@rwkde
6 ай бұрын
What a fantastic piece of technology! Expertly restored, as always. Thanks for sharing, Bruce.
@aaronb5060
6 ай бұрын
Cleverly disguised device! Without seeing the interior mechanisms I'd have thought it was a buffet cabinet!
@RememberOfWasted
6 ай бұрын
Благодарствую. 👍🏼🙏🏼
@jimmyjudha8424
6 ай бұрын
I want to know that the roll is recorded from pianist at that time or it is just a simple as scores translated to punched holes.
@DuoArtOrgan
6 ай бұрын
These rolls were made by a guest pianist playing on a special recording piano. The piano could capture which notes were played as well as how hard the keys were pressed. A draft roll was perforated and reviewed by the pianist until they felt it was a correct rendition of their performance. At that point the rolls were produced and sold to the public.
@jimmyjudha8424
6 ай бұрын
@@DuoArtOrgan Beautiful piece of art! Thanks a lot!
@Tadfafty
6 ай бұрын
Are all pianos the right height, or will this only work with some pianos?
@DuoArtOrgan
6 ай бұрын
It works with most pianos. Generally height isn’t a problem because you can put spacer blocks under it if necessary. However, it won’t work on pianos with deep key desks because the fingers for the black keys won’t reach them.
@jimthesoundman8641
6 ай бұрын
Was this electrically driven when it was brand new or has it been modified to add a motor?
@DuoArtOrgan
6 ай бұрын
This is fully automatic and has the original vacuum turbine motor to create the vacuum that runs everything else.
@risingchads
6 ай бұрын
The Welte was electric-only when introduced in 1904! It was for the very wealthy, whose houses would have had private electrical generation or at least batteries long before mains provision.
@andrewbarrett1537
Ай бұрын
The early Weltes have a slow moving 3-bellows motor driven pump which is very similar to their orchestrion pumps. These Welte Originals from the late 'teens and early 20s often have a turbine suction unit (one of the very few commercially-produced automatic instruments from the original era to have one; most instruments found with them today are either revival-era instruments or later retrofits). The still later Welte-Licensees, which outnumber the Welte-Originals by a good margin, usually have a compact 4-bellows box pump driven by a motor via a belt.
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