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Huell Howser visiting the Bagdad Cafe is a classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImpGsMenmSs

That is one episode I never saw on cable reruns. Is that for real? Or does the performer just pantomime the motions of making the music?

The Fotoplayer is based on a player piano so the musician isn’t always playing the piano, leaving them with a much more sensible amount of work to do. One person bands are very much a thing and I think this performance falls well within the realm of plausibility.

Indeed this is real and not a pantomime.

I was going to post this exact one if nobody else did. Excellent episode. It certainly was a great show. Very informal and informative.

I love how that thing sounds