Is this some sort of Before & After pairing of photos?  Is the piano teacher searching for his pupil when in fact she's sitting right there in the grass, covering her ears in anticipation of her own sour notes?  And does she finally give in and attend her lesson with a dimly lit room?

From Rockford's 1971 yearbook.

We always hear of musicians selling their souls, but it's also conductors, recording engineers, even album cover artists.  From Witchcraft and Sorcery, 1973.

From Elizabethtown's 1923 yearbook.

Great band name for a spooky ensemble: "The Dead Beats."  From Olivet Nazarene's 1959 yearbook.

"He'll jauntily haunt you and you'll love it."  From The Film Daily, 1945.

From Lustige Blätter, 1919.

From the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's 1920 yearbook.

This mysterious, shadowy personage (seen in UNC Charlotte's 1972 yearbook, pictured top) is a sort of puppet-master behind a great many musical acts.  That same year, he appeared in the University of Montana, Missoula's yearbook (pictured bottom).  We documented two of his other mysterious incarnations in this post.

From Henderson's 1910 yearbook.

From 1895, reproduced in Nebelspalter, 1958.

The clarinet isn't all wop wop shoo be do be do be do be do be do be bop bam bam do wop pop blam.  From Washington College's 1971 yearbook.

"It's always a real learning experience to practice 'tooting one's own horn' without seeming too contrived" (Donna Brooks).  From Recueil d'Antiquités by Antoine Mongez, 1804.

The ultimate air guitar is played by ghosts.  This photo is exactly as it appears in Concordia's 1994 yearbook.

An illustration by Trier for Lustige Blätter, 1919.