Trumpet Cornet

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"Trumpet Cornet"
Song by Thomas Mason
RecordedJune 22, 1878
Genre instrumental, nursery rhyme?
Length0:23
Songwriter(s) Thomas Mason
Audio sample
The 23-second audio dubbed "Trumpet Cornet"

"Trumpet Cornet" is a placeholder name for an 1878 song performed by Thomas Mason in a tinfoil phonograph.

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Background and recording

The song was recorded in St. Louis, at a hat store named Steinberg & Co, on June 22, 1878. [1] It used a tinfoil phonograph, [2] which had been invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. [3]

The recording also featured the nursery rhymes "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Old Mother Hubbard". [4]

Composition

"Trumpet Cornet" is a rather short instrumental song set to the tune of B-flat. [5] Its instrumentation only consists of Mason's cornet playing.

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ↑ "urbanSTL-Fun YouTube Mention". urbanSTL. August 1, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Edison tinfoil recording, 1878". nyheritage.contentdm.oclc.org. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  3. ↑ "Tinfoil Phonograph, 1878 - The Henry Ford". The Henry Ford. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  4. ↑ Waldron, Ben. "America's Oldest Voice Recording Restored". ABC News. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  5. ↑ "MiSci's 'St. Louis Tinfoil' Tapped For National Recording Registry". WAMC. April 5, 2021. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Listening to the Earliest Surviving Tinfoil Recording of a Musical Performance : History of Information". History of Information. 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2024.
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