Recording Truck

ID: 3065 ~ Source: Indiana Historical Society, M0428 ~ Date: Circa 1920

This file appears in: Gennett Records

This portable recording laboratory was used by Gennett Records to record sound effects. This truck was also used to record members of the Hopi tribe at the Grand Canyon.

This file appears in: Gennett Records

Gennett Records

By Sue King, Morrison-Reeves Library and Ariana Cieslak

By 1915, the Starr Piano Company decided to start recording the discs to be played on those phonographs: records. Records were first issued under the Starr name until a separate division, Gennett Records, managed by Henry Gennett’s sons Harry,…