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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
Attachment thumbnail Player pianos on U-Tube -- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKgyrswfOQ
Attachment thumbnail A really out-of-tune Italian barrel piano (ick!): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKftZLn8l1w
Attachment thumbnail And a really nice rendition of Doll Dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ObfRxxGmpQ
Attachment thumbnail Player piano from TV: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KA5tYI7YPA
Attachment thumbnail Band organ on the street: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUmZFkyQCP8
Attachment thumbnail Another band organ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F22Gq_m3Pms&NR
Attachment thumbnail A really nice one here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH8gJhvNlN0&NR
Attachment thumbnail and one playing classical music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LODo0x6zcEI&NR
Attachment thumbnail Another band organ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5aUUpZsYIU
Attachment thumbnail Vladimir de Pachman making a roll at the Welte recording piano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwTw7hBZbkY
Attachment thumbnail Happy kids appreciating a coin piano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1xjn3rTNsY
Attachment thumbnail Little Brown Jug on roll: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgqAEbSWsp8
Attachment thumbnail Cremona playing Memphis Blues, I think; one of those W.C. Handy things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWxrnUcKgRM
Attachment thumbnail Mortier playing at Music House Museum Key frame shot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMwQlm9NAw
Attachment thumbnail Be sure you are lying on your left side to watch this one (LOL): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UhHqrK515o
Attachment thumbnail Hold that position and watch a Violano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdy5Ow6vk04
Attachment thumbnail Big Mortier front view: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSjboAhoKKo
Attachment thumbnail 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
Attachment thumbnail This may be Stan Kann on the Wurlitzer at the St. Louis Fox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dXE7r3oEh4
Attachment thumbnail Theater organ and soprano: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PNhh-SURD4&NR
Attachment thumbnail 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
Attachment thumbnail My favorite artist performing my favorite song of his (Fats Waller): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in1eK3x1PBI
Attachment thumbnail 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
Attachment thumbnail Some Joplin rags: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2_q5-pZUYQ
Attachment thumbnail And of course Ballet Mecanique: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo0H8ztju78
Attachment thumbnail 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
Attachment thumbnail 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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