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Songs That Should Not Work on Instagram: "🎥 Before movies had soundtracks, there was the American Fotoplayer. Built in the 1910s, it was a mechanical orchestra — a wild combination of player piano, organ pipes, drums, bells, and levers that let an operator create everything from thunder to train whistles in real time. Today, only a few still exist. One belongs to film historian Joe Rinaudo, who restored his Fotoplayer and still performs live silent film shows with it — using hand-cranked projec
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PullingHistory on Instagram: "The American Fotoplayer was a mechanical orchestra built in the 1910s to bring sound and emotion to silent films. It combined a player piano with organ pipes, drums, bells, and levers that produced effects like train whistles or thunder. One of the few working examples today belongs to Joe Rinaudo, a film historian and restorer who dedicated years to rebuilding it. Rinaudo performs live silent film shows using the Fotoplayer, hand-cranked projectors, and original 35
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Code Intellectus on Instagram: "Joe Rinaudo’s 1926 American Fotoplayer is a masterpiece of early cinema engineering - a hybrid machine that played music and sound effects for silent films before movies could talk. Built between 1912 and 1925, it fused a player piano, organ pipes, percussion, and manual sound triggers to bring entire theaters to life. Every emotion - laughter, suspense, romance - was performed in real time. When “talkies” arrived in the late 1920s, synchronized sound replaced it
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Songkills | music on Instagram: "No words can express how hard Joe proceeded to hit it 🔥😤 Consisting of a piano with percussion, sound effects and organ pipes, the 20th-century Fotoplayer was controlled by a single musician to create lively soundscapes for silent movies. In this video from the TV series California's Gold, musician Joe Rinaudo demonstrates the fascinating instrument. Follow @songkills for more! 🎶 . . . ( fotoplayer, joe rinaudo, californias gold, silent film music, vintage ins
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