{"id":1739,"date":"2011-10-09T16:23:05","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2011-10-09T16:23:05","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:23:05","slug":"the-maple-leaf-rag-on-59-pianos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/09\/the-maple-leaf-rag-on-59-pianos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maple Leaf Rag on 59 Pianos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; display: block;\">\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Maple_Leaf_Rag.PNG\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Copy of sheet music for Maple Leaf Rag, publis...\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/300px-Maple_Leaf_Rag1.png?resize=300%2C390\" alt=\"Copy of sheet music for Maple Leaf Rag, publis...\" width=\"300\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Simply awesome! I love the pianist here. After all, this rag was originally written in 1899 by the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/King-Ragtime-Scott-Joplin-His\/dp\/0195101081%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0195101081\" rel=\"amazon\">King of Ragtime<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Scott Joplin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/music\/Scott%2BJoplin\" rel=\"lastfm\">Scott Joplin<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maple-preview.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1742\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/maple-preview\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maple-preview.jpg?fit=539%2C133&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"539,133\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Maple Leaf Rag\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maple-preview.jpg?fit=539%2C133&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1742\" title=\"Maple Leaf Rag\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maple-preview-300x74.jpg?resize=300%2C74\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"74\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maple-preview.jpg?resize=300%2C74&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maple-preview.jpg?w=539&amp;ssl=1 539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Anyway, <a title=\"The Maple Leaf Rag on 59 Pianos\" href=\"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/2011\/10\/the-maple-leaf-rag-on-59-pianos\/\">the full post has a video of<\/a> Robbie Bancroft playing the piece on 59 different pianos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UhqOoEscfZw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply awesome! I love the pianist here. After all, this rag was originally written in 1899 by the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin.Anyway, the full post has a video of Robbie Bancroft playing the piece on 59 different pianos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,20,32],"tags":[98,1874,2214,2369,2564,2661,3341],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","category-music","category-videos","tag-98","tag-maple-leaf-rag","tag-october","tag-piano","tag-robbie-bancroft","tag-scott-joplin","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-audio","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/maple-preview.jpg?fit=539%2C133&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-s3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}