Name: Buster's Pork Pie by Mel Stallwood Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Mel Stallwood
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Buster's Pork Pie
by Mel Stallwood Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Buster's Pork Pie

Artist Mel Stallwood

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Mel Stallwood

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 5

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Mel Stallwood

Level 5

Product ID 999795

Genre Ragtime Jazz

Instruments Piano

Product Description

A comical novelty piano piece recalling memories of the silent movie days with a title alluding to Buster Keaton and his signature pork pie hat. The piece references several familiar tunes and jingles and would probably delight an audience although I havent yet given it a go. "Keaton designed and modified his own pork pie hats during his career. In 1964, he told an interviewer that in making "this particular pork pie", he "started with a good Stetson and cut it down", stiffening the brim with sugar water. The hats were often destroyed during Keatons wild film antics; some were given away as gifts and some were snatched by souvenir hunters. Keaton said he was lucky if he used only six hats in making a film. Keaton estimated that he and his wife Eleanor made thousands of the hats during his career. Keaton observed that during his silent period, such a hat cost him around two dollars; at the time of his interview, he said, they cost almost $13." (Wikipedia) I have dedicated this composition to my Uncle Buster who was killed in action in WWII.

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