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Lot Essay
Invented and built in 1973 by the renouned Aeolian inventor Gordon Butler Iles, (also the inventor of the Silloth aircraft simulator), the Robot can operate long-play rolls and incorporates expression membranes, similar to those of the Ampico B system. A photostat of the full description written by Gordon Iles accompanies the instrument.
Iles worked at Aeolian as inventor and theorerician and, is best remembered for his 'Artona' piano rolls, manufactured behind his home in Ramsgate and effectively the successor to the Aeolian business in this country. His roll-punching machine was sold as lot 118 in these rooms on June 3, 1982. He died in 1983.
In 1995, Nimbus used this vorsetzer to play many rolls from the Stonehill collection and the Frederick Chopin Society of Warsaw, Poland presented the Grand Prix du Disque award for these series of recordings in 2000, (Nimbus disc No. NI-8814 from the Grand Piano series).
It was used with a concert grand Steinway for the reproduction of the music.
The Grand Prix du Disque is awarded to only the very worthy of musical reproductions in the category of contempory recordings and past winners have included the works of Vladimir Ashkenazy, Claudio Arrau and Alfred Cortot.
Iles worked at Aeolian as inventor and theorerician and, is best remembered for his 'Artona' piano rolls, manufactured behind his home in Ramsgate and effectively the successor to the Aeolian business in this country. His roll-punching machine was sold as lot 118 in these rooms on June 3, 1982. He died in 1983.
In 1995, Nimbus used this vorsetzer to play many rolls from the Stonehill collection and the Frederick Chopin Society of Warsaw, Poland presented the Grand Prix du Disque award for these series of recordings in 2000, (Nimbus disc No. NI-8814 from the Grand Piano series).
It was used with a concert grand Steinway for the reproduction of the music.
The Grand Prix du Disque is awarded to only the very worthy of musical reproductions in the category of contempory recordings and past winners have included the works of Vladimir Ashkenazy, Claudio Arrau and Alfred Cortot.