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Veronica : Rags, Blues & Foxtrots Played By Rare Nickelodeons &orchestrions
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rags, blues & foxtrots played on seven differnt instruments dating from the teens and 20's with piano the primary instrument
Genre: Blues: Piano Blues
Release Date: 2006
Rags, Blues & Foxtrots Played By Rare Nickelodeons &orchestrions
Veronica
Record Label: Mottoros
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Preview Song Name Time Buy
1. Funny Bones Rag 2:08 Album Only
2. Cheese and Crackers Rag 1:53 Album Only
3. Sapho Rag 1:55 Album Only
4. Beedle -um-bo 1:57 Album Only
5. The Cubanola Glide 1:45 Album Only
6. Barbed Wire Rag 1:44 Album Only
7. That Fussy Rag 2:01 Album Only
8. Mashed Potatoes 2:19 Album Only
9. Oceanna Roll 2:14 Album Only
10. A Totally Differnt Rag 1:49 Album Only
11. Irma Rag 2:04 Album Only
12. Ram Rod Rag 2:05 Album Only
13. Mandy and Me Rag 1:47 Album Only
14. Southern Ideal Rag 1:41 Album Only
15. Poor Papa Foxtrot 2:24 Album Only
16. Tintina One Step 2:06 Album Only
17. Somebody Loves Me 2:33 Album Only
18. Where's My Sweetie Hiding Foxtrot 2:24 Album Only
19. Give Me a Ukelele 2:26 Album Only
20. Hugs and Kisses 2:05 Album Only
21. Sugar Foot Strut 2:09 Album Only
22. Ain't Much Good in the Best of Men 2:08 Album Only
23. Swamp Blues 1:59 Album Only
24. Sobbin' Blues 2:08 Album Only
25. Love Ain't Nothin' but the Blues 2:12 Album Only
26. Shreveport Stomp 2:23 Album Only
27. Grandpas Spells 1:56 Album Only
28. King Porter Stomp 1:59 Album Only
29. Troubador Rag 1:49 Album Only
30. Bohemia Rag 2:04 Album Only
31. Reindeer Rag 1:53 Album Only
32. Blame It On the Blues 2:05 Album Only
33. Long Lost Blues 2:02 Album Only
34. Contentment Rag 1:54 Album Only
35. Trilby Rag 1:57 Album Only
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Album Notes

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.

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REVIEWS

A time capsule to a bygone era
author: Erik York
                            
As a novice and a new enthusiast in the mechanical music realm, it was nice to finally find a CD that presented the "best of all worlds" so to speak.  A very nice selection of Nickelodeons and Orchestrions are presented on the CD with DYNAMITE music playing on them.  I dare anyone not to tap their foot when listening!  The selections played on the Cremona-G are just plain FUN!  I've played this CD for a couple friends who had no idea these types of instruments and music existed.  And it's time to let the re-education begin.  This is the true music of the roaring twenties; it could be heard in countless dance halls, restaurants, and soda or ice cream parlors.  A great era of America's past lives on every time someone new hears this music for the first time.   Trying to listen to all these instruments in person would be next to impossible for most, but on this CD they sound as if they're right in your living room.  The sound quality is excellent and captures every note, nuance, and percussive instrument in astounding clarity.  Purchase this CD now for yourself and maybe a friend too!  It will instantly become one of your favorite CD's.

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Regs and Blues
author: Bill Chapman
                            
Wow.  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.

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RAGS, BLUES, & FOXTROTS PLAYED BY RARE NICKELODEONS
author: DONNA WILLIAMSEN
                            
YOUR 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

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A CD that will take you back 100 years
author: Karl Ellison
                            
There 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!

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