Breathtaking Cornet Solo Monarch 2439 Walter B. Rogers & Sousa Band (1903)
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Description
Accompanied by the Sousa Band, cornet soloist Walter B. Rogers
plays an incredible selection entitled "Lulle Waltz" on a Victor
Monarch 2439.
This was recorded on August 26, 1903.
Cornet legend Herbert L. Clarke claimed that his life-long friend Walter
B. Rogers was the greatest cornet technician that he ever heard, and
he marveled at Rogers' lightning-fast tongue and execution.
This 111 year-old disc will show you why Clarke showered such praise
on Rogers.
The record description itself needs some extra details. Overall, I
would visually call it V to V+ not very nice. Play-wise, the first
half-inch of grooves is quite scratchy, but it soon begins to clean up,
and about a third of the way through (when Rogers begins to show
his stuff) it plays a solid V+.
There is a very faint 1" edge crack, but the record plays through with
no skips or hangs.
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