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Novelty Piano is a genre of piano music that was popular during the 1920s.A successor to ragtime and an outgrowth of the piano roll music of the 1910s novelty piano can be considered a pianistic cousin of jazz which appeared around the same time. Nola a 1915 composition by New York pianist Felix Arndt is generally considered the first novelty piano hit.
