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Rags, Blues & Foxtrots Played By Rare Nickelodeons &orchestrions
© 2006 John Mottoros
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rags, blues & foxtrots played on seven differnt instruments dating from the teens and 20's with piano the primary instrument
tracks
- 1 Funny Bones Rag
- 2 Cheese and Crackers Rag
- 3 Sapho Rag
- 4 Beedle -um-bo
- 5 The Cubanola Glide
- 6 Barbed Wire Rag
- 7 That Fussy Rag
- 8 Mashed Potatoes
- 9 Oceanna Roll
- 10 A Totally Differnt Rag
- 11 Irma Rag
- 12 Ram Rod Rag
- 13 Mandy and Me Rag
- 14 Southern Ideal Rag
- 15 Poor Papa Foxtrot
- 16 Tintina One Step
- 17 Somebody Loves Me
- 18 Where's My Sweetie Hiding Foxtrot
- 19 Give Me a Ukelele
- 20 Hugs and Kisses
- 21 Sugar Foot Strut
- 22 Ain't Much Good in the Best of Men
- 23 Swamp Blues
- 24 Sobbin' Blues
- 25 Love Ain't Nothin' but the Blues
- 26 Shreveport Stomp
- 27 Grandpas Spells
- 28 King Porter Stomp
- 29 Troubador Rag
- 30 Bohemia Rag
- 31 Reindeer Rag
- 32 Blame It On the Blues
- 33 Long Lost Blues
- 34 Contentment Rag
- 35 Trilby Rag
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As a collector of automatic music recordings for 45+ years and record review editor for the Musical Box Society in the 1960s and early 70s, I heartily recommend this CD for anyone who likes American “nickelodeon”
music, and especially for anyone who would like to hear the difference
between several different brands and models of coin pianos and orchestrions playing different brands of rolls.
The nice variety of instruments includes a very early Wurlitzer Pianino, Link 2E (piano, mandolin attachment and xylophone), Empress Electric style Y (which includes the instrumentation of a Coinola X with xylophone and drums), Coinola C-2 (playing O rolls on piano, mandolin, a
rank of solo flute pipes and drums), Cremona G (with flute pipes), Seeburg KT Special (piano, xylophone, mandolin and 9 other percussion > instruments), and Seeburg G. The instruments are restored and regulated
properly and tuned well. The acoustics are just right---bright enough to add life to the sound, without too much reverberation.
The generous total of 35 tunes on the CD include a good variety of ragtime (“Funny Bones Rag,” “Barbed Wire Rag,” “Reindeer Rag,” “Bohemia”
and over a dozen more), blues (“Ain’t Much Good in the Best of Men,”
“Sobbin’ Blues” “Blame it on the Blues” and others), fox trots (“Somebody Loves Me,” “Where’s My Sweetie Hiding” and others) and misc.
tunes that don’t fit into the other categories (“Grandpa’s Spells,” “King Porter Stomp,” Sugar Foot Strut,” “Cubanola Glide,” “Oceana Roll,” etc.).
If you’ve wondered what makes different brands and coin pianos and orchestrions, sound vastly different from each other, this recording gives you a good start. It also shows you the nice variety of music available on various types of coin piano music rolls.
If you would like to own one coin piano or orchestrion, it will also help you to decide which type you like the best. I have no vested interest in promoting the CD, but I’ve enjoyed playing it numerous times, and our friend John Motto-Ros deserves credit for the nice job he
did in making some fine music available.
Art Reblitz
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Regs and Blues
author: Bill ChapmanWow. Nice to hear a clear recording without a lot of machinery noise in the background. This CD really captures the melody and the mood of the teens and 1920s.
RAGS, BLUES, & FOXTROTS PLAYED BY RARE NICKELODEONS
author: DONNA WILLIAMSENYOUR SERVICE IS FANTASTIC!! I REALLY LOVE THIS CD AND I AM SO GLAD THAT YOU HAD IT IN STOCK. I HAD TRIED TO FIND IT ON FOUR OTHER (POPULAR) SITES BEFORE FINDING IT ON YOURS. THANKS, SO MUCH! DONNA
A CD that will take you back 100 years
author: Karl EllisonThere are very few recordings available that capture in hi-fidelity stereo the unique timbre and turn-of-the century feel of the automatic instruments ubiquitous to the last century like this recording does. Each track is of high quality, and represents each instrument with a jolly tune indicative the "speakeasy" days. I heartily recommend this CD!