And speaking of well-played Joplin, here's Perfessor Bill Edwards site. Comprehensive.

Hi, playing ragtime music (Scott Joplin!) which instrument and which preset should be used ?

Honky tonky ?
Thank you.

To quote Wikipedia:
"As a composer Joplin refined ragtime, elevating it above the low and unrefined form played by the 'wandering honky-tonk pianists'... Joplin wrote his rags as 'classical' music in miniature form in order to raise ragtime above its 'cheap bordello' origins and produced work which opera historian Elise Kirk described as '... more tuneful, contrapuntal, infectious, and harmonically colorful than any others of his era.'[15]"

I suggest that any honky tonk setting be used only as a novelty. For best results, I would use one of the more refined presets of D4 or Bluthner.

About velocity curve actually I have this:

How should I change it ?

Thank you for your suggestions...

What do you mean exactly for "50% of Honk Tonk" ?

Don't forget Maple Leaf.

;-)

Honky tonky ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olh8unzpHog

Thank you.