Starr Piano Company Chimney, Richmond, IN
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N 39° 49.500 W 084° 54.000
16S E 679719 N 4410444
Chimney for the former Starr Piano Company complex in Richmond, IN, built in the 1870s. The company started out making pianos, and later record players. Eventually producing jazz, country, blues and gospal records under the name Gennett Records.
Waymark Code: WM570K
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2008
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The company made both regular and player pianos, as well as phonographs. They also produced the rolls and records. Per the attached Wiki article, "Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, "King" Joe Oliver's band with young Louis Armstrong, Hoagy Carmichael, The Original New Orleans Jazz Band, Thomas A. Dorsey, and many others. Gennett also recorded early blues artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Charlie Patton, and Big Bill Broonzy, and early "hillbilly" or country music performers such as Vernon Dalhart, Bradley Kincaid, Ernest Stoneman, and Gene Autry. Many early religious recordings were made by Homer Rodeheaver, early shape note singers and others."
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