Studio Sign 2

ID: 3070 ~ Creator: Ariana Cieslak ~ Date: January 2023

This file appears in: Gennett Records

This sign marks the north wall of the studio's reception room and engineering office. Here, the recording engineer, such as Ezra Wickemeyer, would capture the recording on blank wax master.

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,…