Scott Joplin | The Entertainer | Ragtime Piano | Original Recording

Scott Joplin - The Entertainer. Original recording performed by Scott Jopin and recorded on a piano roll.

[star.set]

The sounds of a piano which are over 100 years old now. This is interesting to hear

[Jakob-fzkw]

Amazing!
This is the original one, played by Scott Joplin.
This recording is recorded in 1902.

[klausmelem]

The Original is the Original.
This man was an excellent piano player.
And some of his Compositions are still in our heart.
103 Years after his dead.

[BlueAcidball]

“It is never right to perform ragtime fast”
YEAH RIGHT

[joanwilliams]

There is something magical about hearing this song.

[МойшеЮхман]

Давно искал! Спасибо за запись! В старых фильмах периода СССР этот трек часто встречается.

[casperl.]

if there was a time machine that could only take you into the past 5 minutes at a time, i'd go back and listen to scott joplin play the fig leaf rag because it's my favorite

[meganhannon]

only the 1900's kids will remember

[Stanley.]

I'm just getting back into piano, after 20+ years of not playing, which I deeply regret... I have been playing the bass guitar since 1992, but the piano was my first musical instrument. My mother and one of my sisters are highly skilled piano players, and I recently "Inherited" my sister's electric piano when she moved out West, and this is one of the songs I am trying to re-learn (my mother played this all the time when I was a youngster), and I'm not doing *too* bad, considering how long it's been.
I started playing in 1980 or 1981 when I was just a little kid. I learned how to read music at a young age, but I'm the type of person who "plays by ear, " and I can learn more quickly that way, than by reading music (which I never much cared for)... My main problem *now* is having "clumsy fingers" after going for so long, but it's only been a few weeks and I'd say I've made progress. I only started trying to play this particular song for the past 5-6 days, when it suddenly popped into my head. I'm so glad I found the original! Now I I'm finding a few mistakes/parts I left out, as I was just going on memory, until just the other day when saw a video of somebody playing this song... I think It's going to be a good while before I can get this entire song down again, and even longer before I can play it anywhere NEAR "full-speed"...thinking back, I don't know if I ever played this beautiful song at full-pace!
Anyway, thank you so much for uploading the original! This is definitely one of my all-time favorites, and hearing the original, for the first time in YEARS, made my day!!

[thefearlessbros]

I think that if you play it at 0.75 speed, it seems more like the speed it was recorded at. This is because when Joplin wrote the song in 1902 he didn't want it to be played fast. He even wrote "play slow" on the original sheet music.

[ett]

I want to hear this recording in its original state without any effects

[AdamFerrari]

You can tell this was played by him because the rhythm is a bit more offbeat “rag” than modern interpretations

[KeysToPlay]

The playback speed of reproducers, pianolas and player pianos was not standardized, so we'll never know exactly at what tempo he recoded it. Most player mechanisms had a speed control. Not sure if Dan L had it it set dead center, but even if he did, there's no guaranty that was the "intended tempo". The discrepancy in the year recorded, might account for some of the variations in rhythm, compared to the manuscript.

[JustTheSpaceMan]

120 years old now! Wow! That’s an old song!

[Fujinon]

Good to hear someone in my phone playing piano.

[dawsonb]

Amazing!! I play this song, but not THAT fast. Just wow!!

[sethcaluag]

When you have a drink in the saloon but you bump into someone and you start squaring up so shawty can be impressed while this shit plays in the background

[The_Original_Nosferatu]

I had the original 78 speed album when I was 6 or 7 so 1976 or 1977, it was given to me in a box of old records. It's been lost since then and I had the toon in my head and could not remember the artist or song and I ran across it today, for so long I've tried to remember it and I would love to still have that record.

[YeshMCx]

Recorded in 1916, the same year my great grandma was born. She passed last year at a respectable 104. I bet she used to mosh to this.

[dedballoons]

That's fast as fuck. Did he really hit it that fast from the outset? Jesus.