Hello Shell, Read your post and feel I have something to contribute here. I took up the piano in middle age and am a small person with small hands. I also had...
I won't be able to attend the Peoria contest this year, but I saw their "new rag" contest and was highly tempted - is it possible for me to enter a rag and...
Hi, Larisa. Sadly, the rules (whether expressly written as such or not) require that the composer be present to play his or her new rag. This was a big...
Hi, I detest that rule, as in all likelihood, I would never be able to play my own work at a polished enough level to be worthy of the contest. That's one...
A question for the historians here: is there any actual causal link between most ragtime tunes coming into the public domain in the 1970's and the 1970's...
Hi Larisa. Do a search on this group for Public Domain and you'll find deep and extensive information I have posted before on this. In essence, 76 years for...
I only partially answered your question, since you do address it in 3166. I'll try better. In my upcoming book Honky Tonk Piano, I have made some registrations...
Bill..... I find you to be one of the best historians around, with some of the most obscure information that I always find interesting. That's why I want to...
While I can't reach a 13th like Roy Bargy could, I can at least reach a 10th or 11th...although an 11th is pretty worthless. I found that if you stretch your...
Reposted to correct typos - my text editor went spastic on me. ... My primary sources are Terry Waldo's story in This is Ragtime, the liner notes from the...
Confirmation: In the 2005 interview used in the making of the Sting special feature, "The Art of The Sting," Ward very clearly and concisely, from his own ...
One Last Quote. I went a bit further into the documentary, and Ward, again directly on camera, says he actually _opposed_ the use of ragtime in The Sting as it...
Bill... A million thanks for taking the time to clear this up, and the misconception I've had for over 20 years based on what David Ward told me. Having been...
While I have no hard-and-fast documentation in front of me to back this up, my understanding is that the fact that many ragtime tunes came into public domain...
Dear Mr.Edwards, thanks to contact the Zimmermann's, for the moment i have no order done, i retried for the website,the sheet music field still doesn't work. ...
I have made about 11 midi sequences in the last 3 days and there will be more to come here. They are all ragtime.... Click this link to have a look please: ...
I tried to get some informations about Hans or Henri Engelmann. But it's quiet difficult. Did anyone knows something about him? He seems to have been a...
Is there an optimum amount of practice time? I often have the feeling that in order to get anywhere near the level of the rest of you, I'd have to play...
I haven't played the piano in a year and a half, so my memory is a little sketchy... but I think I only played about 45 minutes/day on average. Back in...
I think it's very dependent on the individual. As a child, I used to practice 1.5 hours a day, every day, and I do think that it helped. Now I practice less...
... OY That one hoit whole bunches, tryin' to find sumtin' on dis guy. OY Here are the raw notes for what I found, although I could only come up with a handful...
Before it fades from my memory, I'll put on the eternal Internet one more facet that no one -- here or anywhere else, as far as I know -- seems to have...
Dear Group, On the subject of Arthur Schutt again, has anybody ever heard of (or own a copy of) any of these pieces, supposedly by Schutt: Modulation Blues,...
