It might amuse some of you to know the "other" history of this little
ditty.  It seems that in 1924, the Metropolitan Opera, as a fund
raising device, offered a recording made by a variety of the then
members of the Aeolian (Duo-Art) organization.  As some of you may
know, the tune had become ubiquitous early on in Europe and was known
there as the "Cutlet Polka."  (Not a waltz, as you see).

The story is that the composer Alexander Borodin was sitting at the
piano when his young daughter joined him (on the treble side) saying:
"See Daddy, I can play the piano too," and proceeded to "plunk" out
the notes.  He was charmed and decided on the spot, apparently, to ask
his colleagues to contribute to a piece which would be four-hands,
involving a non-playing pianist (like his daughter) and a skilled
performer.

Thus was born what became known as "Tati-Tati" and consisted of
contributions by various pianists, in the form of varying styles of
the time: polka (of course), waltz, minuet, tarantelle, galop, etc.
The artists involved were: Ganz, Hofmann, Bauer, Hutcheson, Mero,
Siloti, Schelling, Leginska, Myra Hess and Novaes.

The composers included Borodin, of course, Rimsky-Korskov, Balakirev,
Cui, Liadoff, Tscherbatschev, even Franz Liszt, who contributed a brief
"andante."  Having heard about it when I was in New York in the
mid-60s, I was told that a single copy of the roll had ever been made,
and that it was the one auctioned off by the Met.  It was purchased for
$2400.00 by a member of one of New York's "400"...and presumably, said
I, would still be in the hands of the descendants of same.  So I called
the listed number for the only one I could find in the Manhattan
directory, woke him (after a night on the town, as it turned out) and
of course he knew nothing about it, but was cordial and helpful.

Well, the story has a happy ending.  The master roll turned up in the
so-called "Woods" collection -- the personal holdings of the one-time
editor for Aeolian, W. Creary Woods, and was included in the group of
nearly 500 "masters" he had retained and which the IPL (International
Piano Library) purchased from his wife Edna Bentz Woods, (Creary
unfortunately a victim of probably Alzheimer's and could recall nothing
of his past activity).

In the course of events, the roll was loaned to Gerald Stonehill,
and it was reproduced as Artona 8001, the late Gordon Iles' series of
recuts of rare and previously unissued rolls taken from the collection.
It has been performed in part by the late Igor Kipnis in collaboration
with his duo and 4-hands partner, Karen Kushner, during their series of
educational concerts given in the East.  (See "Google" for details)

P.S.  It was also orchestrated by Alexander Tcherpnin, as I recall and
there was once a Columbia LP of a performance by the West coast Werner
Janssen Orchestra, with the founder conducting.

Albert M. Petrak, Founder
The Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation