Dear Frank,
wow!!! The rags you posted are very rare! And there are some masterpieces among them!
I actually know only four of the pieces you included, while the others are absolutely new to me!
I see you included "Blue Note Rag", which I consider one of the best rags ever published: I got my copy of this piece from the Sam Charters collection.
Certainly if all the silent members of this website would check their own local library for vintage sheet music, that would be very helpful.
I've never been in the U.S. but I often order photocopies and scans of ragtime sheet music from several American libraries. There are some gems collected in there!
Tomorrow I'm going to the sea, I took a brief holiday and so I cannot contribute much in these days.
Frank, when I'll be back I'll do the best to join your effort in posting rare rags.
Thanks so much for your precious work!!!
I just post a ragtime folio arranged by
William H. Tyers today, "
The Rag Bag".
All the pieces are re-arranged in different keys and with some minor differences from the original publications.
Among the pieces there's also "Levee Rag", that is a very very good rag, the first to use a riff also used in "Cannon Ball Rag", "Easy Money" (this one featuring two strains of Levee Rag) and an unpublished rag by Dink Johnson entitled "Take Your Time".
By the way, the sheet music of "Cannon Ball Rag" can be found here:
http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl//lill ... -201021-02
and the sheet music of "Easy Money" can be found here:
http://digital.library.msstate.edu/cgi- ... ch=%22easy money%22
Talk to you after the holidays.
Best RAGards
Luigi
Tyers, W.H. - The Rag Bag.pdf