On offer is one of the earliest disc records made in Britain. Gramophone inventor Emile Berliner sent his assistant Fred Gaisberg to London in the summer of 1898 to organise a recording studio and base for his European recording venture, choosing a hotel basement in Maiden Lane, just off The Strand. According to Gaisberg s diaries, recording commenced on or about the 7th August 1898, and the record offered here was recorded 6 DAYS later, on 13th August 1898. It is a 7 single-sided E. Berliner Gramophone record, no. 5003, and is a cornet solo by Will E. Bates of the well-known Music Hall song Our Lodger s Such A Nice Young Man . I ve owned and sold dozens of Berliners in the last 50 years, but I ve never had a London Berliner of such an early date
CONDITION: V-, a surprisingly strong and loud player, with no jumps. Excellent cornet playing with some triple tonguing and variations in the last chorus.
COMMENTS: Unique?
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