Show us your sheet music

[Miss 1929]

Chi-keeta!

Love that graphic!

 

[John K Stetson]

Three Classics

Wow, good thread. Forgot that we have a hundred or so sheets here...three classics that I think go well together:

 

[Vintage Betty]

Amy - Your sheet music is lovely! Are those cardboard backing and plastic covers acid - free? if yes, may I please ask where you purchased them and the cost? I need to cover the music I just acquired.

John - Very funny! Do you get many comments from visitors to your home?

 

[Amy Jeanne]

Amy - Your sheet music is lovely! Are those cardboard backing and plastic covers acid - free? if yes, may I please ask where you purchased them and the cost? I need to cover the music I just acquired.

I doubt it, since that's what they were wrapped in in the antique store. I've taken mine out and framed them so I don't keep them in covers, but I've heard that you can get those covers in most comic book stores.

 

[John K Stetson]

John - Very funny! Do you get many comments from visitors to your home?

Well - yes, about many things, but...ah, you must mean the brandy snifter! We keep loose bills from our overseas trips in there, kind of as a joke, but also as a little bit of a remembrance of our travels. This was more interesting before the introduction of the Euro...I'll try to take a pic in the other direction when we get back from vacation in a couple weeks - a bit more humor on the
right side of the piano.

On the archival front, I've used Light Impressions quite a bit, more for photographic preservation but they have quite a range of products.

http://www.lightimpressionsdirect.com/servlet/OnlineShopping

 

[alexandra]

Holy crap Vintage Betty...you must be the luckiest girl in the world.

 

[Vintage Betty]

Holy crap Vintage Betty...you must be the luckiest girl in the world.

Ms. Alexandra - you don't even know the half of it! People have been so nice to me over the years, that I am fortunate enough to offer things to others. Keep checking the Classifieds for my contests and freebies I give away.

Vintage Betty

 

[martinsantos]

Just got an enormous amount of sheet music that belonged to my grandfather... Aside piano, his instrument was tenor banjo, and was a big fan of Harry Reser since he was a teenager (he ever tried to runaway to USA twice because music! But happilly my great-grandefather cought him, once when he was just getting into the ship). Played professionally in clubs and radio between 1928 and 1934. But played a lot until his death.

These sheets were a kind of treasure to him - some sent by Reser himself, when my grandfather wrote to him asking about some tricks in the instrument.

These sheet music is very simple, no figures, photos, etc. One of his preferred tunes:

Different too are some for piano. A single piecce of paper making four or five sheets. This I will try to start to play. Here is the Jan Savitt's "720 in the books" - with a spanish title. The lyrics are in English.

 

[BoPeep]

Interesting that this thread was revived lately. martinsantos - How wonderful to have your grandfather's music. I have a soft spot for banjo. My dad used to play and taught me when I was 8 years old!

I just recently took a look in my piano bench...

 

[BoPeep]

And of course my absolute favorite that I just bought off etsy!!!!

And a few instruction books too...

 

[martinsantos]

Wonderful sheets, BoPeep!

(and beautiful piano, too! I'm still trying to get my grandfather's piano, a Kemble from 1939... But it's hard to convince all my cousins to let me stay with it).

The only two more with more elaborated frontspiece I've found are these, for banjo:

Funny that I found an open reel tape with he playing with himself (two channel records). One channel at piano, other in banjo. Absolutely fragile tape, as he edited with normal scotch tape.

 

[BoPeep]

Love that Banjo Solos sheet! And how great to have a recording of his playing. There must be someway to copy it into a modern format so that you can listen to it without worrying.

 

[martinsantos]

A few more sheets... This time for piano, from my own collection.

"When Buddha Smiles" was the very first I bouht. A funny, happy fox-trot by Nacio Herb Brown - and almost forgotten. This sheet probably is from 1925 or 1926.

This fox-trot is interesting because the band that played it came with Mistinguett. At those days (20s) she was told as the owner of the most beautiful legs!! She was a french dancer/singer. She made a huge success. The cigarretes brazilian soldiers, in World War I got where called "Mistiguettes".

Of course this fox trot ("egyptian fox trot) appeared not long after Carter discovery...

 

[KathrynQCheshire]

I don't suppose you'd consider sharing the sheet music for "Say That We're Sweethearts Again"?? I've looked everywhere in the world for it, it seems! I'm trying to help the band I'm performing with next month learn it, but it sure would help to have something to go off of... *grins*

I have sheet music. I don't play any instruments but I used to sing. Most of the stuff I have is from movies. My favorites are Never Gonna Dance from Swingtime and Say That We're Sweethearts Again from Meet The People. I paid an arm and a leg forthe latter.

I'll take photos tonight if I can.