Honky Tonk attachment

[gordon stelter]

> "Some of his music 
> states 'play on untuned piano'." (I don't doubt that
> some delightful 
> music publisher might have inserted that piece of
> wisdom; do others 
> know if Joplin actually made such an instruction?)

VERY, VERY UNLIKELY!!! Joplin's publisher, John Stark
of St. Louis, was ADAMENT that his "high-class rags"
attain the respect of European salon music, and were
published in the late 1890 to WW1 period, when fine
pianos were the norm.

> I intoned "Believe me if Scott Joplin or Eubie Blake
> could heard this 
> thing they would shout "Tune this thing NOW!"
Good!
> End of today's rant,
> Patrick D
> 
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