Does Anyone Else Enjoy Old Sheet Music?

[fureverywhere]

I love old sheet music! My grandmother had a piano and there were volumes in her attic. I wish I could play but just enjoy the covers. Even the detail of how notes were written out before standard printing. There was one I used to have called "Red Hair" with Clara Bow on the cover. Wish I still had it, would probably be a collectors piece today.

I did find a terrific one mixed in with other stuff. It was called "Me-ow" and the publishing date was 1919. It has a cat yowling on the cover. Looks strangely like my baby Levon. We matted it and framed it. It will be front n' center over my desk. I'll post a pic soon. Something amusing on the back is an ad with a Pa Kettle kind of cartoon. He offers the music for another tune and underneath it says "Catchy "Pep" Song for your player piano or talking machine". I wonder what a talking machine was in those days?

 

[NancyNGA]

Fur, here's one of my favorites. The only song I ever memorized. But I forgot it all now. What a waste of time. Ha!

 

[fureverywhere]

I never saw that...pretty profile though

 

[Susie]

Still have lots of sheet music for my accordion, about
75plus years old, mostly yodel music, waltzes and polkas, also folk tunes.
It's looking pretty battered, wonder what I could do to save it! Maybe send it to someone with bookbinding skills?

 

[oldman]

I have tons of old sheet music, but mostly it is old Country and Blue Grass songs that I played, along with my dad and uncle.

 

[Bluecheese50]

I am one of those weird people who doesn't like music at all, I will tolerate classical, if it is on quietly, as my husband likes it.

 

[Fern]

I have a lot of sheet music for the organ, I prefer the songs of yesteryear not so raunchy or loud, plus they sing not talk.

 

[Pappy]

I was a youngster during the war years and my grandmother always had these setting on the piano. She had a piano bench full of other songs, too. Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer was my favorite.