
The material is all unaccompanied piano. I ripped the unlabeled side here. The "Military" side was all Sousa style marches, not at all interesting. The unlabeled side was more lively. The first track is unknown to me but quite good. The second track starting 1:55 into the recording, I do recognize. It's a rag time rendition of "Aint She Sweet." Unfortunately that song has such a long pedigree that I cant use it to infer an age to this disc. The rag time approach to it is probably more like it's original 1927 version than anything contemporary to this recording.
I selected this side because it's more representative of home entertainment before radio. People used to play for their own families. At the end of the disc you can hear a small group of people, undoubtedly spouses, sons and daughters. The pianist a soft spoken woman says 'That's all there is, ain't no more" and a man says "Yeah there is, there's two more choruses." Somebody always has to be a critic.
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