Two things:
Scott Joplin wrote a *Fig* Leaf Rag.
Mr. Joplin's musical direction on all his "Rags" was, "Play slowly".
Courtesy of Petroc Trelawney & R3 this morning.
Yes. I heard some twunt attacking the Maple Leaf Rag the other day as if he had a train to catch. OTOH
Joplin's own recording - admittedly on Pianola roll - wasn't exactly slow, but Pianola tempo is hardly definitive.
ETA: the sheet music says "march time". That ^^^ is more like "scamper".
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My lesson for the day is that 10 mm > 3/8", as in you can't tighten a Dremel collet with a metric spanner*, the
imperialistic ejections of diseased transditch whores overweening bounders having the temerity to flog their crap in Europe without including the appropriate article. Admittedly I had already suspected as much, but it's a confounded nuisance all the same.
* in fact you can, but before you get it tight enough to hold a bit reliably the spanner slips, burrs the collet and then jams in place, requiring moderate violence to dislodge. Bloody Yanks.
