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Mechanical Music in the Movies: "Roxie Hart"
By Art Reblitz

Thanks for the link to the National coin piano video in the clip
from the film, "Roxie Hart", included in the Nov. 13 2025 MMDigest.
The video indeed shows a National, but the audio is a recording
of an 88-note player piano.

The highest automatically-played note in a National is C#, and
the piano in the audio plays notes that are in the octave above
that. Also, the arrangement doesn't sound like a typical National
arrangement by one of their staff arrangers.

Here's a detailed history and description of National coin pianos
and rolls:

https://www.mechanicalmusicpress.com/registry/nat_auto/nat_auto.htm 

Art Reblitz
Colorado Springs, Colorado


(Message sent Fri 14 Nov 2025, 15:51:41 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Hart, Mechanical, Movies, Music, Roxie

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