Ragtime Roll

[Stearmen]

I thought some of you would get a kick out of this sight! We tend to forget, some of the earliest million sellers were not 78s, but piano rolls. just don't let young ladies listen to Ragtime, I am told that it can turn them into "drug fiends, and sex maniacs," well thats what I have heard! [video]http://www.youtube.com/user/AeolianHall1?feature=pyv&ad=5006432466&kw=ragtime#p/u/0/jIjpB49bacM[/video]

 

[Shangas]

The first million-sellers were sheet-music. Nuts to your piano-rolls! NUTS I SAY!

That's really nice music though. I love ragtime. It's so relaxing...

 

[Doctor Strange]

Great Scott Joplin site for you other ragtime geeks:

http://www.perfessorbill.com/pbmidi15.shtml

 

[Stearmen]

Gay 90s

The first million-sellers were sheet-music. Nuts to your piano-rolls! NUTS I SAY!
QUOTE] Note that I said "some of the first," I know the first was sheet music from Tin Pan Ally, back in the Gay 90s.

 

[Shangas]

I was only jesting, Stearmen. Only jesting. I believe the first audio-recordings (commercially) came out in the 1880s or 1890s...

...How far back does piano-roll technology go?

 

[listenone]

I want to try it