'Over the Waves' Joe Rinaudo at the American Fotoplayer

"Over the Waves" performed by Joe Rinaudo at the American Fotoplayer

[jeopardy]

The thing that fascinates me about this Fotoplayer is that it has so many more instruments than just a player piano. Also, it's fascinating to me that there were such instruments to play music automatically before there were electronic keyboards and MIDI. You really change presets so gracefully. When I was a kid, I read in Keyboard Magazine that a keyboard player is very good at changing presets and pressing other buttons on a keyboard because you can zero in on a button and press it with the same skill as it takes to play the keyboard.

[vincentcalvelli]

Thanks Joe it is always a pleasure to hear music performed on The American Fotoplayer

[Richard-vqud]

This music is so joyful. It lifts the soul. Amazing. Thank you so much for keeping it alive.

[strausspilled]

this is one of my most favorite pieces! it's so nostalgic

[bigbeefscorcho]

One of my most treasured tunes played by the master of the fotoplayer himself, Mr. Joe Rinaudo. It don’t get much better than this, folks!

[alanfranciscovivancoreyes]

The composer was mexican, his name is Juventino Rosas.
The name of the music is "vals sobre las olas".
I know, because i am mexican

[yussfx]

que hermoso es su vals maestro rosas...

[raistlinmills]

I find it sad that so few of these remain. The only videos that I can find online are this one, Joe's Style 20 and the Speelklok's Style 25. I believe Joe has a Style 50 and a Style 31 in storage, there are no videos of either of these styles online. I also saw a Style 1 for sale online. It was sold and now I can only find the image of it.

[jeopardy]

I always liked this piece because it's played in the arcade game Carnival.

[jeopardy]

I just thought of something as I'm returning to this video. If you shot a silent movie in an arcade of someone playing Carnival back in 1980 when that machine came out, you could play this roll as background music for that. At that time, many people, including my parents, only had silent movie cameras to shoot video, so they would be making silent movies, and the Fotoplayer could come into play for showing them.

[lohphat]

Are the stop transitions indicated on the roll?

BTW, thank you for posting these. I can't watch without remembering Huel introducing you to the larger audience via YT; I keep seeing him over your shoulder mesmerized and jubilant like the kid at heart he was.

[richardclay]

"When you are in love it's the loveliest time of the year...?"

[gregorkrause]

this was a popular #circuspiece back in the days of the pipe organs, calliopes, bands.

[jensg]

You hear the melody on European street organs often. Never knew that is was Mexican.

[alangknowles]

This a different fotoplayer from the one in your house!

[chazdesimone]

Go to Joe's website silentcinemasociety.org and search "fotoplayer" - several items will show up, including details about this marvelous music machine. Be sure to subscribe to the website newsletter!

[masterandservant]

By the way... Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena did not invent the COLOR TV either, he developed an alternative to it, by making a full-electronic system to accomplish the combination of chroma values with no moving parts, but color tv was a thing already back in those days, I know it because I'm a Mexican devourer of history books.

[Musicmanyk]

What style of American Fotoplayer is this one ?

[Thexdmattx]

So this is like one of the first audio mixers lol.

[richardclay]

This tune is definitely the song "When You are in Love." I don't know about any Mexican connection. It has been in several movies as well as being used in circus acts (back when circuses existed). DON'T take my word for it. LOOK it up!