[78-L] Keen-O-Phone label

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/17/2010 10:21 AM, Rockined1 wrote:
> just acquired a bunch of Keen-O-Phone 78s--in all my years of collecting I've never seen this label.
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> Anyone know about it??
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> Ed
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Vertical discs with Pathe-type sapphire ball groove.  According to 
Sutton & Nauck from 1912-1914 and then reorganized into Rex, which are 
more common but still scarce.  Although Fred Hager was the musical 
director for both Keen-O-Phone and Phono-Cut, according to the book the 
latter became the source for Starr Piano's first label Remington with no 
tie-in with Rex.  I remember George Blacker's frustration at trying to 
figure out the relationships among all these vertical labels with so 
little evidence to go by except for the rare instances of finding 
masters issued on two labels.  Is anyone now working on this project?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com