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Kohler and ChaseAEOLIAN PIANOLA PUSH UP PIANO PLAYER. 65 Note player.See it on youtube
$1300 or best offer. Local Pick-up in Novato, CA. 94947.We will consider shipping if an offer is made to pay for shipping.
Unknown Condition. I have not tried to work this instrument. I barelyknow what it is. \"At the beginning of the player piano era, to have music in a home without a playing artist, you needed to buy one of those \"new fangled\" player pianos and discard the others. THEN, several companies, including the very prestigious Aeolian Company, produced the \"push up\" player. When not stored in the closet, you simply adjusted the push-up to any piano, inserted your favorite piano roll and pumped away. For those on a modest budget, you could have the fun of a player piano without discarding your treasured old piano.\"
Æolian Company\"The Pianola which outshone all the rest, as the first truly musical piano player. The very first Pianola was built in early 1895 by Edwin Votey, in a workshop at his home in Detroit, and his Farrand & Votey Organ Company made several trial models during 1896 and 1897. \"
Similar or Same Product:The MetrostyleIn 1903, Aeolian introduced the Metrostyle, invented in 1901 by Francis L. Young, an American member of staff seconded to the Orchestrelle Company, the Aeolian subsidiary in London, England. Young seems to have been a keen Pianolist himself, and he recognised a weakness in the instrument from the point of view of the average Pianola owner. Since music rolls were arranged mechanically, they had no dynamics or phrasing within themselves; these had to be created by the Pianolist by means of the foot pedals and hand levers. While dynamic indications were already being printed on the rolls, and a rough, overall tempo was stamped at the outset (Tempo 70, for example, indicated a roll speed of 7 feet per minute), an inexorable tempo did not make for musical performances, and was no doubt the source of much prejudice against the new instrument. Young invented a wavy red line, printed on the roll, to be followed with a pointer attached to the tempo lever, so that the ebb and flow of musical phrasing could be measured and reproduced. The new device was called the Metrostyle, and from the autumn of 1903, the Metrostyle Pianola was aggressively marketed.
