A comic sketch from 1903: 'Auction sale of a music store'.

Viva-Tonal · Post by **Viva-Tonal** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:17 pm

Spencer & Hunter is the performers' credit. There are obviously more than the two people in the studio heard as the crowd in the background (Victor's orchestra?). I don't know who Hunter is, but I'm sure that's Len Spencer.

This record dates to 1903. Monarch 2543; matrix B.533. There is no take suffix; in those days lack of a suffix indicated the matrix was take 1. Transferred at 74 rpm.

Have a laugh!

Updated, thanks to the link from Shane: Recorded 9 October 1903. Parke Hunter and Len Spencer it is.

gramophoneshane · Post by **gramophoneshane** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 7:35 pm

It's Parke Hunter apparently

http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/matrixBr ... rch=Search

These auction sale records were pretty popular at the time. There were quite a few in the G&T catalogue too.
Thanks for posting.

A comic sketch from 1903: 'Auction sale of a music store'.

A comic sketch from 1903: 'Auction sale of a music store'.

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