"Blind" Boone, noted black pianist who although he was blind from birth could play virtually anything he heard, and brilliantly at that. Dumars eventually helped publish some of Scott's own compositions as well as those co-written with others.Ī fine opportunity presented itself in the summer of 1904 when Scott was asked to participate in a concert with John W.
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The store further provided a storage room full of pianos where the youth could practice and even composer in privacy. At times the pair also made road trips into the field to sell pianos with James making each instruments sound its best. Dumars quickly discovered Scott's musical abilities and allowed him to demonstrate pianos and popular tunes, the advent of which brought into the store many curious customers resulting in increased sheet music sales.
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He had also been the director of the Carthage Light Guard Band for nearly two decades. By 1904 he was working for Dumars Music Store owned by local alderman Charles Dumars in Carthage, doing general cleaning work and picture framing.
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At age 17, he obtained one of his first performance gigs at Lakeside Amusement Park, a trolley park in Webb City about halfway between Carthage and Joplin, playing both piano and calliope, and sometimes sitting in on sets performed by other area bands. Scott's initial employment was as a bootblack for a black Carthage barber.