Citation needed? I don't recall ever hearing that before, and the wikipedia entry for ragtime doesn't mention guitar in the context of the history of the genre

Citation needed? I don't recall ever hearing that before, and the wikipedia entry for ragtime doesn't mention guitar in the context of the history of the genre at all. It does talk about Ben Harney [1], who allegedly invented the term and was a piano player, and brings up the obvious connections of the form (at least as Joplin wrote it) to marches in the Sousa style. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Harney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Harney