James P. Johnson plays “The Gypsy Blues”
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Love that! The triumph of pure mechanistic analog. Extra cool that it was done with a Vorsetzer (the contraption that sits in front of the piano and plays the keys.)
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He has a great video in which he explains the player mechanism... super cool...
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Wait, so what is he doing with his hand? Presumably if he pedaled faster, the piece would speed up, right?
How interesting! I’ve never seen one of these before.
@ShiroKuro His left hand is controlling the sustain pedal. The second video shows and explains the controls available to the person pumping.
I don't know if pumping faster speeds it up but it sort of seems that it does.
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