Comment by Richard William Ineson on March 29, 2017 at 10:24

Here's another.

Comment by Richard William Ineson on March 29, 2017 at 10:30

Without trawling through the piles of crumbling paper it's difficult to say how much of the Essex catalogue was offered in A notation and for how long. I think that Darktown Dandies was also available in A. The two solos I've copied here are not very well known so this could mean that all of the Essex catalogue was available in A notation at one time. An interesting rubber stamp on the Prairie Life copy is for the Maxim Publishing Co. Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Sole Agents for the CE Co. This piece belonged to Col. Colllins of the ABF at one time, a long time supporter of A notation.

Comment by Richard William Ineson on March 29, 2017 at 10:31

Comment by Trapdoor2 on March 29, 2017 at 14:58

Ah yes. I do have some of these Essex sheets that are provided in 'both'. In my mind, that was just a marketing solution (recognizing the American market). What I would like to see (not sure it exists) would be a Brit publication in A without any specifically marked differentiation from "normal" (C-notation). If such a thing existed, I would expect to find it in something really early, like an Ellis publication.

Joel is spot on. The drivers for such stuff are a spectrum of events (chaos). Money is always the biggest, of course.

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