His comment that the men who ran the recording industry left the piano music to the player piano is belied by the sheer number of ragtime and ragtime-novelty piano sides that have been issued in the years since, by pianists from Felix Arndt and Mike Bernard to Eubie Blake.
Nihon Mitai offers New Age music, bamboo sculptures and a novelty for this side of La Perouse strait, sushi on a conveyor belt.
Still, the V-8 of the Maserati is more engaging to the ear than the boxer-style six in the Porsche, and the Italians will have novelty on their side, at least in the near term.
Packed with novelties, including one side that plays from the centre to the edge, it shifted 40,000 LP copies in the first week of release in June, more than any release since 1991, and is still selling 2,000 copies a week.
On the side of novelty, there was an echt Wiener schnitzel, complete with lemon wedge and capers.
I did think people might think it was a sort of side show novelty, or some completely ungraspable conceptual self-indulgence.
On Bainbridge Island, an outpost of new wealth and settled rhythms, blacks are a novelty, but throughout this side of Puget Sound, racial troubles still surface.
The company's mobile division has been struggling in recent years, so why not embrace the novelty of a squeezable side input?
It was B-side to novelty single "Mama Will Bark" (with Dagmar, a busty chorus girl and early TV starlet).
But there is a dark side to the novelty: true and persistent danger.
