So, I have a stack of ragtime sheet music in the corner of my living room, much of which is inherited from my brother, that I’ve been looking through since I have a few extra moments of time on my hand these days.

Part of my morning routine lately has been to just grab a couple that I don’t know, and noodle my way through them. It’s been fun. I’m surprised to find a few of them I actually recognize from concerts I’ve been to, but most are completely new music to me.

So, this morning I am playing an elegant piece called “Who let the cows out? (A bully rag.)” Never heard it before, but I’m stumbling through it OK I think. Then I get to a measure of rests, and there is the notation in the middle of the staff “make a noise like a cow”.

Perhaps some of you with more formal music training can tell me exactly how I should have handled this? I stopped and laughed, but I doubt if it sounded very much like a cow.

I suppose it depends which end of the cow the noise is to sound like.

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Originally posted by pianojuggler:
I suppose it depends which end of the cow the noise is to sound like.

My thoughts exactly.

The cows says, Moo!

Duh!

Or you sounded like a laughing cow? Mini bonbel? Mini babybel?