Player piano

[celticdragonfly]

Yesterday I had someone over for the first time, and in the course of the house tour showed off my player piano and played a roll. Too much these days that tends to be the only time it gets played. So today while selenite and I were in the music room half of the library discussing lighting, I sat down and started playing. He wandered off to get work done after the first one, but Maggie was begging for more from the living room, so I played another. Repeat, until I'd played 5 rolls. Nice little musical workout, that is.

I need to play it more often. I really need to get more rolls for it, too. That would give me more incentive. Plus you learn about neat music that way. I didn't know the musical fun that was Thomas "Fats" Waller until I got this player piano, and several rolls played by him came with it, as well as "Two Hearts in Waltz Time", a roll I love with lyrics in both English and German.

Comments

[sraun]

fmsv has an extensive collection of piano rolls - you might want to catch up with him about it sometime?

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Um...who?

User info didn't help.

[sraun]

fmsv = Fourth Meta Syntactic Variable. It goes with foo and bar, the first and second meta syntactic variable. I've forgotten what the third one is.

He's a Minneapolis fan, he and his wife have a large piano roll collection. They host a Minn-StF Meeting two or three times a year, and many piano rolls get played.

I've forgotten exactly why he doesn't more closely associate his LJ with any other identity signs - contact me directly and I'll pass along his e-mail address.

[coalboy.livejournal.com]

(I'm playing catch-up with lj.)
There are __mucho__cds of Fats Waller. I love them!