🗺️ The Entertainer

Tap Play the map and follow the stops. It lasts about 83 seconds. Tap any stop to start from there.

1. Plink, plonk. The piano walks down, then the bouncy tune starts!
2. A new tune. Listen, a new tune that starts down low.
3. The first tune is back. The bouncy first tune is back!

For grown-ups: the composition is in the public domain (written 1902). Peabody’s band plays it from notes read out of a published score, simplified to one tune line with chords, and some stops are played by a different band so the change is easy to hear. Read from: https://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/abc/by/Colin_Hume/Entertainer.abc (Colin Hume's arrangement with chords: Intro, Tune 1 = Joplin's first strain, Tune 2 = his second), as oldhits.ts reads it. Cut time in eighths written as four beats (Joplin's 2/4 in sixteenths); the intro's first, highest bar cut; ties over a bar line struck again; two high bars of Tune 2 (up to A5) and the notes leading into them an octave down; chords from the source.