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Trumpet Cornet

"Trumpet Cornet" is a placeholder name for an 1878 song performed by Thomas Mason in a tinfoil phonograph.

Background and recording

The song was recorded in St. Louis, at a hat store named Steinberg & Co, on June 22, 1878. It used a tinfoil phonograph, which had been invented by Thomas Edison in 1877.

The recording also featured the nursery rhymes "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "Old Mother Hubbard".

Composition

"Trumpet Cornet" is a rather short instrumental song set to the tune of B-flat. Its instrumentation only consists of Mason's cornet playing.

Personnel

  • Thomas Mason - cornet

See also

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