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Mechanical Music Videos on YouTube
By D. L. Bullock

Our kind of music can be found on YouTube!  YouTube is now showing
player pianos, band organs, theater organs, live and rare performances.

To start with lets look at the Walt Disney Haunted Mansion demented
Pipe organ recorded by the talented and ghoulishly demented Gaylord
Carter on a Robert Morton in Glendale.  If you have been through the
haunted Mansion at Disney world you may recognize this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAQZ8JKnDTk

Player pianos on U-Tube --
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKgyrswfOQ

A really out-of-tune Italian barrel piano (ick!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKftZLn8l1w

And a really nice rendition of Doll Dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ObfRxxGmpQ

Player piano from TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KA5tYI7YPA

Band organ on the street:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUmZFkyQCP8

Another band organ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F22Gq_m3Pms&NR

A really nice one here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH8gJhvNlN0&NR

and one playing classical music:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODo0x6zcEI&NR

Another band organ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5aUUpZsYIU

Vladimir de Pachman making a roll at the Welte recording piano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTw7hBZbkY

Happy kids appreciating a coin piano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1xjn3rTNsY

Little Brown Jug on roll:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgqAEbSWsp8

Cremona playing Memphis Blues, I think; one of those W.C. Handy things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWxrnUcKgRM

Mortier playing at Music House Museum Key frame shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMwQlm9NAw

Be sure you are lying on your left side to watch this one (LOL):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UhHqrK515o

Hold that position and watch a Violano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdy5Ow6vk04

Big Mortier front view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSjboAhoKKo

I really don't get this one.  I am told it is Joyland Louie,
an institution in Wichita:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YwXTQHcuuA

This may be Stan Kann on the Wurlitzer at the St. Louis Fox:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dXE7r3oEh4

Theater organ and soprano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNhh-SURD4&NR

And of course, my good friend Lew Williams plays a Rosa Rio tune
with the composer listening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oqn_yxjkGQ&NR

My favorite artist performing my favorite song of his (Fats Waller):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1eK3x1PBI

There is also Xavier Cugat in an old movie with Jimmy Durante, Bing
Crosby, Betty Grable, Van Johnson and other faces you will recognize.
Who is that lady in the tutti-frutti hat?  No, it isn't Carmen Miranda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxkQLB-kJC0

Some Joplin rags:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2_q5-pZUYQ

And of course Ballet Mecanique:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0H8ztju78

You should get to know the YouTubers.  You could become one
of the YouTube contributors like these if you have home movies.
Just upload them to YouTube like these folks have:

Organ addict Michael's Music Service:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=michaelsmusicservice

Player piano pedaller Nealien and his favorite piano rolls:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=nealien

Then there is the talented 18-year-old boogie woogie boy
who plays a birdcage upright (cam1987):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ME2YTPQnzc

And a 23-year-old boogie woogie boy:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=freakyhead20

Enjoy!
D.L. Bullock
www.pianoworld.us


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