Scott Joplin's Score for A Guest of Honor

Origin
Scott Joplin (1867 - 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Joplin was dubbed the "King of Ragtime Writers" for his ragtime compositions having written forty four original ragtime pieces. Along with those he composed three operas, two famous ones and one lost to time.

A Guest of Honor was Joplin's opera which focused on a 1901 White House dinner hosted by then President Theodore Roosevelt for the civil rights leader Booker T. Washington. The opera was politically polarizing, with Roosevelt receiving criticism from his political opponents for entertaining the African-American leader. Regardless Joplin gathered people to take the Opera on tour, one night before practice began a stranger broke into the playhouse, stealing the only copy from Joplin's possessions. Until recently the script was considered lost to time.

Effects
Touching will play the music from the lost opera loudly in victim's head. Will continue to rise in volume if touch is maintained causing ears to bleed and eventual death.

Collection
Was taken from Talaat Pasha after his capture and subsequent bronzing