[Sirius Lee]

Very little material from the 1915-era was preserved at all, and the primitive technology rendered it almost unwatchable.

I assure you, sheet music from the turn of the century was still available and decypherable in the late 60's and early 70's. This primitive technology, print, is still extant. It is how music has been, and continues to be, conveyed down through the centuries.

It's not my problem if certain people are either ignorant or retarded to the point that nothing exists in their world unless they have "watched" it.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I assure you, sheet music from the turn of the century was still available and decypherable in the late 60's and early 70's. This primitive technology, print, is still extant. It is how music has been, and continues to be, conveyed down through the centuries. It's not my problem if certain people are either ignorant or retarded to the point that nothing exists in their world unless they have "watched" it."

Seriously, how many people obtain their primary exposure to music via buying sheet music? It is an absurd argument. The only people who buy sheet music are musicians who can read music but can't figure out the songs - songs they've already heard somewhere - on their own, or - as in my case - wanted to see what the guitar chords were.