El Rancho Hotel's Player Piano

Above, the player piano in the El Rancho's lobby. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Yesterday, I had to take friend Larry Lucier to his weekly physical therapy in Gallup.

Following his therapy session, we headed over to the El Rancho Hotel for dinner. I had the usual chili rellenos.

After dinner, we heard piano playing along with other instruments in the lobby. Upon closer look (and listening), the music was coming from a player piano. Along with piano, it had other sounds of different percussion instruments, including drumming.

I have seen the player piano in the lobby, but never have heard it being played. We stopped and listened for a while.

I made a short video of it and just uploaded it to YouTube: