<HTML>In a message dated 12/9/02 1:03:23 PM Central Standard Time, sckline@attbi.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">As consolation, Wim, there is a certain mad sense in the printing press as an answer. The 20's had a huge increase in sheet music of popular songs, rags, jazz, and so on. And weren't talkies after 1920? When did the Jazz Singer come out? Just being the Loyal Opposition here ... Susan </BLOCKQUOTE> The huge increase in popular music was due in part because of radio. People bought the music they heard on the radio. They also bought not only records, but the sheet music went along with it. Then when talkies came, (The Jazz Singer came out in 1927), people rushed to buy the music they heard on the screen. Wim </HTML>