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Mechanical Music in the Movies: "Flitterin'"
By Jamie Brewer

There is a YouTube of "Flitterin'" being pumped on a player piano:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piKRDEsCdXw 

I remember, back in the early 1970s, just learning about player pianos
-- how I would devour the "Player Piano Company Catalogue"!  In one of
those early catalogues was a listing of new Aeolian rolls for sale and
"Flitterin'" was included in this list.  It was unavailable when I tried
to order it at the time.  Whenever I see Aeolian rolls I search out
that title...

Jamie Brewer


(Message sent Sun 17 Dec 2017, 15:30:25 GMT, from time zone GMT-0800.)

Key Words in Subject:  Flitterin, Mechanical, Movies, Music

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