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Coding Ragtime For Ampico
By Peter Neilson

In 980916 MMDigest Craig Brougher says,

> "Rags are relatively easy to code.  You take 'em straight off the
> sheet music and you cut 'em straight and cool with as little pedal as
> possible."

If that is true, then why do I feel that Douglas Henderson's Artcraft
ragtime rolls are, in some mysterious way, superior to most other
ragtime rolls?  And why do I find, when playing any ragtime piece on
the piano with my own fingers, that there are a dozen different ways
to perform each of the phrases of the music?

--Peter Neilson
  Sanford NC


(Message sent Thu 17 Sep 1998, 11:53:41 GMT, from time zone GMT-0400.)

Key Words in Subject:  Ampico, Coding, Ragtime

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