7" G&T 78rpm single-sided disc "Slippers And Rice" Charles Barton 1902 No. 9009
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Buy this 1902 instrumental rarity,
and help rescue BADGERS, and other wildlife!
We'll be selling LOTS MORE lovely 78 rpm RARE operatic
and classical-vocal items soon, so keep an eye on our listings.
Don't forget!
If you buy MORE THAN ONE ITEM we will offer you
a HUGE POSTAGE DISCOUNT!
Here we have a very, very EARLY 7" Gramophone & Typewriter disc, a G&T featuring flute virtuoso Charles Barton (not a special agent).
The selection is "Slippers And Rice" (in other words, it's a wedding dance) and despite what it says on various internet sites, Barton is playing a piccolo, not a flute. The tune was written by Karl Kaps, who was better known as an arranger, and it was recorded in London at the only session we can find by C. Barton, on the 8th of November 1902.
It is numbered 9009 and has the number 576YR (or something like that) written in the wax round the label.
We thought it might be a ragtime toon (hurrah!) but it seems to be more of a jolly two-step.
It has a thunderously noisy start, and then cleans up well after a few seconds. Then a small (damp?) mark appears, causing a few clonks, and everything plays through with out a problemette. It's a lot of fun.
We've left the disc un-cleaned, so you can sort out the little damp mark, and maybe get the noisy start improved a bit. See what you think when you play the video.
Recording was still in its infancy in 1902, and we think that Mr Barton would have been better advised to play his flute, rather than the squeaky piccolo which is producing some frequencies too high for the acoustic recording system. Halfway through, he gets louder, so maybe the cutting engineer came round and and manhandled him towards the horn by the seat of his trousers.
Using the VJM system, which we find very vague and confusing, we reckon it's a V- or maybe a V. It's perfectly collectable and will clean up more than somewhat.
We're selling several more VERY early 7" turn-of-the-century discs, so have look, and strange to say, we have another one where lack of recording experience results in a very strange effect (see Rigolette on Nicole records).
NO OVERSEAS bidders please.
And NO OVERSEAS bidders using UK addresses please.
SORRY, NO BUYER COLLECT...but.. if you buy MORE THAN ONE RECORD we will give you a HUGE discount on POSTAGE!
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