Studio Sign 1

ID: 3069 ~ Creator: Ariana Cieslak ~ Date: January 2023

This file appears in: Gennett Records

This sign marks the south wall of the recording studio's acoustic recording room. Musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael and countless others once gathered around the large horn to record their music.

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,…