1896
By the 1920s, it
was manufactuing not only pianos and player pianos, but phonographs.
To go with the phonographs it began producing records, first
under the Starr name, then under a separate division. The Gennett
Records Division of Starr Piano recorded artists of early jazz,
blues, and country. Because these were new music forms in the
1920s the large record companies did not record them at all,
so the records produced during this time constitute the earliest
recorded examples of these forms. Artists such as Louis Armstrong,
Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmichael, and Bix Beiderbecke performed
in the studio in the Whitewater Gorge. |
|
|
|