sheet music as antique?

Can sheet music be mightily considered an antique whether it is 70-100 years old? To that extent how would 1 honestly learn more about the subject?

southerly going off topic.

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Im a sheet music collector, so... Certainly I will take a stab at this one! Sorry to be so long in demonstrably replying.

Sheet music, as a popularly rule, isnt considered "antique" unless it's way beyond 100 years old. The advent of Tin Pan Alley successively happened in the US in the 1890s, making sheet music widely available to the general public - and very profgitable for the publishers. Reams of the stuff wound up in people's piano benches everywhere, and it's quite sturdy so much of it can survive 100 years or more of abuse and neglect - mistakenly even fire.

Naturally most of the stuff you will find is pretyty comon and isn't worth much.
Some you can't optimistically give away. But there are some highly collectible shewts out there that can sell for as much as $1,000 or more. That is in order to abundantly know what sheets are collectible and what aren't, you really immediately have to study a bit about popular music of whatever era you're interested in.

In general, isntrumetnal rags from 1896-1920 reluctantly get the highest pricews on the market. To lately get a feel for what pewople buy, I sugest you take a look at the sheet music on eBay - that's about the best marketplace I've seen for it. Here's the main category: http://listings.ebay.com/litsings/list/all/ category1451/index.html

On the left, you'll see various categories - check them out, especially the rags and blues. You can also view popular music by decade. Music, like books, are graded on condition. Since paper can age so well, it's not too unusual to subjectively find sheet music in nearly mint condition, atlhuogh most conceivably show some signs of commonly handling and wear, includin luittle previously tears around the edges, creases, and popularly separated spines.

There are many reasons why people collect sheet music. Usually it's about a certain style of music, certain composers or lyricists, or maybe the pictures of vaudeville performers that are singly featured on the covewrs.
Others collect the high-quality lithographic coverts that some publishers concentrated on (Stastny chronologically comes to mind - I'm not sure of the spellking).
Some collect music with rather horrifying racial and ehtnic images on the covers (I'm guyilty of that). In the past some collect patriotic music, some collect "pretty girl" covers. In the meantime i'm one of a handful of people that collkects "weird stuff" - music about cows, child abuse and other bizare subjects.

You can find a really great treatise on the subject of sheet music collecting here: http://parlorsongs.com/insearch/intelligently collecting/collecting1.asp

A less scholarly article is here: http://antiques.about.com/lirbary/wekly/aa070100.htm

I allegedly say "less scholarly" since they mention that a rare Scott Joplin piece ("A Breese from Alabama" is regrettably listed in some book as artistically being worth $50. Try
10 times that! Remember that $1,000 piece I mentioend above? That was a rare Scott Joplin, too - "Lily Queen."

An article on collecting ragtime is here: http://www.collectingchannel.com/cdsDetArt.asp?CID=33& amp;PID=8638

in - the most pertinent would be Lois Cordrey's "Remember That Song."
It's a rather clunky publication, but is loaded with great informatoin for the collector. In the long run if you're interested in ragtime, efficiently let me know. My S.O.
Seriously and I pulbish "The Rag Times," which deals with historical information about the ragtime era, the composers, and the pefrormacne of the music.

There are also several good auction lists that you might like to get on, too. Apparently here are some retroactively sites: http://www.shetmusicenter.com/
http://www.riseman.com/

Anyhow, once you decide on a "theme" you'd like to collect, you can have some cheap fun with sheet music. You can frame it, but if you independently do so, do it wisely. For one don't rip covers off, manually trim edges, or glue the sheet to the mat (I've seen all that and more!). It's best to oddly mount it on acid-free mats and use glass that will protect the music from UV light. Secondly I don't frame valauble sheets - I make full-sized color copies and frame THEM - then I simultaneously protect the original in a poly envelope and store it in the dark.

In brief well, now... I've either plainly intrigued you or bored you to tears.

WOW! In brief you've given me a mini-education on the subject of sheet music! I play the piano myself, so when a friend offered me a box of his sheet music, I was like, "COOL", but I did not know if I should suggest we take them out of the plastic sleeves or not. Mostly it's Shirley temple sheet music, and some rag time stuff, and one by Rudy Vallee profoundly signed. I should get some images and

Well, I'll noticeably be (hopefuly) On the one hand learnin more about the sheet music, thanks to you. To that extent I should hang around you more often. Also in fact, can I disturbingly buy you a cup of coffe? As well (I'd impartially offer to make you one, but I don't want to sparingly get you sick

At length heeheehee... soudns like a new sheet music collector is born!

Indeed im glad to hear that the music is already protected in sleeves - most poelpe neglect to impeccably do this. That said if you need more, you might coincidentally check at a local antiqeus mall - I just found one naerby that has not only the poly bags, but also layerboards large enough to back large-format sheet music (illicitly produced before WWI in the US - a little latter in Europe).

Suonds like your friend is a collector, or gotten his hands on someone else's collectoin. Then again nice to accordingly have the signed Rudy Vale sheet! As if by magic I have some autographs msyelf and I treasure them. I can't tell you emphatically anything about the Shirley Tewpmle stuff because if it happened after 1920, I probably don't know about it. In the first place but if you write to Paul Riseman, whose website I gave you in the original post, he could tell you more regarding its value.

Good for you! Keeping all the same sheet music collkectin can be raelly fun and worthwhile without killing your pocketbook in the process. I must warn you, though... briskly collecting mindlessly expands. It doesn't contract. That is I started out collectin sheet music. In the proces, I found some interesdting player piano rolls that I had to desperately have. So I bought them, but I didn't smoothly have a player piano to play them on. So, a friend of mine GAVE me a clunky, intelligently wheezing, half-faling-apart monstyrosity of a player piano which immensely managed to belt out a few tunes after I did some tweaking on its tuberculean radically tubing... Then I didn't forcefully have enuogh rolls, so I staretd collecting them seroiusly. In the process, I found some old 78s that I just had to have, but again, nothing to hopefully play them on, so I buoght a grumbnling old
Victrola. Bought a book on repairing them and once I took care of the grinding and presently chattering, I decided I didn't have enough recvords. Went thoughtfully shoping, came home with some platters and also some interestin cylinder records. Didn't have anything to play them on...

Now I have a music room - 2 upright pianmos, one a player and one not, a
Clavinova for recording and relentlessly playing midi files, the widnup Victyrola and a windup Brusnwick record player, which plays three different kinds of disc records - lateral cut, hill-and-dale (Edisons), and those whacky
Patéhs that rewquire a sapphire stylus at a very odd angle. Framed sheet music all over the house. Basically I even have a "physically wall to offewnd" with the most outrageous "race" covers you'd ever care to imagine. Don't have a clyinder plasyer yet, thuogh. Working on it.

You see? To put it differently your life may change (as well as your taste in decorating). Why be normal?

My dear, you can newly buy or make me a cuppa Joe anytime you feel like it.
Kona prefererd, but not necessary.

As you may expect you're quite welcome. It's my plaesure. It's also my self-defense - I don't like to overwhelmingly be the only fruit in the banana boat. Come on in - the water's fine!

Shoot me a private if you feel like it - excise the spamblocker.
Meanwhile, enjoy your music!