Susie Drage
Music, Art & Cookery
Music



This is my Steck Duo Art Grand Piano, which has an electric mechanism and was recently renovated.
The piano is a Steck model 2H pedal/electric Duo-Art Pianola Piano, 5'6", made at the Aeolian Co Ltd factory in Hayes Middlesex in 1928, mahogany case. Built in 1929, it was shipped from the USA to Middlesex where it received the final touches by the Aeolian company. I have had this piano for nearly thirty years and have some wonderful original recordings for it.
On this page, I am sharing some of those recordings with you as they were either recorded by the composer himself or the celebrated pianist of the day from 1920 - 50. This includes a separate section below of Long Player recordings from films, musicals etc.
Music in the parlour with a Piano Player was very much the accepted form of home entertainment, but sadly these pianos ceased to be made after 1939.​
There are various societies and many collectors who restore and cherish these marvellous instruments and, of course, collect the music on piano roll.
The music is wonderfully nostalgic and you will see that there are many recordings by Adam Carroll, Harold Arlen, Bud Noble,
Jerome Kern, amongst others. I have managed to obtain some reprinted rolls from the original old ones with these artists. There are nearly 600 songs in this collection and I will add more recordings from time to time.
LONG PLAYER ALBUMS
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Annie Get Your Gun Medley (Playrite) - Walter Erickson
Calamity Jane Medley (Mastertouch) - Greg Crease, Murray Denham
Carousel (Playrite) - Walter Erickson
Carousel QRS - Dick Watson
Cole Porter Classics QRS - J. Lawrence Cook & Max Kortlander
Easter Parade Selection - QRS - Bob Borkman
Ethel Merman Medley QRS - J. Lawrence Cook & Max Kortlander
Gigi Medley (Mastertouch) - Rex Todd
Hello Dolly Medley QRS - Sid Lanev
High Society Medley (Mastertouch) - Rex Tod
King and I Medley QRS - Walter Erickson
Me and My Gal Medley (Mastertouch) - Conrad Helfrich & Greg Crease
Music Man Medley QRS - Walter Erickson
A Noel Coward Cavalcade Mastertouch - Frank Milne, J. Lawrence Cook
Noel Coward Medley (Playtime) - Adam Carroll
Oklahoma Album No.1 QRS - Walter Erickson
Oklahoma Album No.2 QRS - Walter Erickson
Oklahoma Album No.3 QRS - Walter Erickson
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers Mastertouch - Rex Todd
Showboat Medley PlayRite - Walter Erickson
Singing in the Rain Selection QRS - Adam Carroll
Sound of Music Medley No.1 (Playrite) Erickson, Bud Noble, Kouray
South Pacific Selection No.2 PlayRite - Walter Erickson
South Pacific Selection No.3 PlayRite - Walter Erickson
Top Hat Selection (Mastertouch) - E. Murn
Vera Lynn's Favourites of the Forties (Mastertouch) Len Luscombe and Murray Denham
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