One man orchestra...

burkey

Not sure why this popped up in my YouTube recommendations feed only now!

It's people like Joe here that provide an 'upbeat' outlook on life:

With one of these you could produce your own Warner Bros grade cartoons!

burkey

burkey I worked out why YouTube recommended Joe to me: in my head I was humming Vjezd gladiátorů (Entry of the gladiators)... It turns out Joe has a rendition of that piece performed on his Fotoplayer!

HZPiano

burkey in my head I was humming Vjezd gladiátorů (Entry of the gladiators)...

Wow.

Not only is YouTube engraved in our heads; our heads are integrally stored in their database as well.

We have been assimilated, resistance is futile!

Cheers and happy humming,

PS I do love such amazing true instrument builds!

burkey

HZPiano I do love such amazing true instrument builds!

According to Wikipedia, this Joe fella has 1 of only 12 remaining operational Fotoplayers in the world!

https://web.archive.org/web/20150703091833/http://www.victorianreproductionlighting.com/antique-photoplayer.html

'...sadly less than 50 survive, and of those only 12 are known to be in playing condition.'

And quite likely Joe is the Joe Rinaudo mentioned in that article.

vagfilm

I think that his cardiologist will advise him to switch things around and put all the drums, whistles and whatnots in the self-playing roll, and just play the piano part on the keyboard...

ClothEaredNincompoop

I came across the same video just recently, probably because of watching Rob Scallon's videos of various strange (and more ordinary) instruments.

Gyro

You have found a way to ach-
ieve an even greater amount
of hearing loss than working
on helicopters and airplanes!