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Bea, very amusing! That guy was having a good old time, whatever that was. Early version of a synthesizer. Love the piano, my neighbor had a player piano with loads of those reels or whatever they used to call them. We would play them for hours pumping those pedals.
 

Carla said:
Bea, very amusing! That guy was having a good old time, whatever that was. Early version of a synthesizer. Love the piano, my neighbor had a player piano with loads of those reels or whatever they used to call them. We would play them for hours pumping those pedals.
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It is supposed to be a machine that was built specifically to add a soundtrack to early cartoons and silent movies, not sure what the actual tune is that the man is playing.
 
Got it!

12th Street Rag, by E. L. Bowman, 1914

Bea's version is on steroids, as they say. :rolleyes: (Intro until 0:25)

 

I saw this thing years ago while being entertained by a band at a bar/restaurant on the CT shoreline. The youngest band member was 80 years old. They were so much fun. The internet says it's a stomp-stick. The one I saw was be-decked with colorful feathers and when he stomped it on the floor all kinds of sounds happened.

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Collecting potatoes, after the field has been plowed up. I remember doing this once at my grandmother's place. Not such a big field, though.

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NancyNGA said:
Collecting potatoes, after the field has been plowed up. I remember doing this once at my grandmother's place. Not such a big field, though.
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Great photo!

My family were commercial potato growers when I was little and I heard this more than once when I was a kid, LOL!

"If you're old enough to sit up to the table and eat potatoes, you're old enough to pick potatoes!"
 
Aunt Bea said:
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My family were commercial potato growers when I was little and I heard this more than once when I was a kid, LOL!

"If you're old enough to sit up to the table and eat potatoes, you're old enough to pick potatoes!"
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Yep. I was only about 4 years old at the time, and not a country girl, but I showed 'em I could do it! Ha!
 
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