[78-L] Charlie Chaplin autograph in dead wax of Emerson No. 548

[Erwin Kluwer]

Most Fonotipa (and early) Odeon discs (from 1905 and on) are wax signed by
the artists..



On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Christopher Steward <
chris.1picc at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Gieseking on Parlophone, too.
>
> Chris
>
> --- On Mon, 9/1/12, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Charlie Chaplin autograph in dead wax of Emerson No.
> 548
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Monday, 9 January, 2012, 4:21
>
>
> Signed waxes were fairly common in the 1910s (and earlier?), lots of them
> on
> Columbia..Casals, Hofmann, Weber and Fields come to mind, comedian Billy
> Williams on Jumbo, Walter Gieseking on Homochord (I think) in the 20s,
> Stravinsky on Telefunken in the 30s. Who else?
>
> dl
>
> On 1/8/2012 10:48 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> > This evening, a fellow gave me the 6" Emerson, No. 548, "The Peace
> Patrol,"
> > with music composed by Charlie Chaplin, and played by Metropolitan
> Military
> > Band (Irony right there). Noticed the dead wax includes more than the
> > matrix number, it has Charlie's autograph stamped on to the disc as well.
> > Was this common, done by other performers, composers? From about 1916,
> but
> > unsure of date.
> >
> > Dennis
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