Pioneer recording artist and clarinetist William Tuson performs Heart Bowed Down.
Heart Bowed Down
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| Company |
Edison's National Phonograph Company
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| Cylinder # |
8455
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| Category |
Clarinet solo
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| Title |
Heart Bowed Down
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| Performed by |
William Tuson
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| Circa |
1904
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| Announcement |
"Clarinet solo, Heart Bowed Down, aria from the Bohemian Girl, played by William Tuson. Edison record."
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Most people, when asked to envisage a pioneering recording artist,
would probably not come up with a clarinetist.
But why not?
The clarinet, like the cornet, produced a loud and relatively simple sound
that was perfect for recording on the early phonographs.
Clarinetist William Tuson's name appears frequently, beginning in 1889,
in the earliest extant phonograph recording logs from Edison's Laboratory,
recording dozens of clarinet solos for Edison up through the mid-1900's.
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