Starr Piano Co., Richmond, IN
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N 39° 49.542 W 084° 54.036
16S E 679666 N 4410520
Remaining portion of an old industrial complex in Richmond. The upper stories were torn down and the lower converted to a public space. Location was a piano factory and also used to produce early jazz and country records under the Gennett label.
Waymark Code: WM570N
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 11/21/2008
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Former location of the Starr Piano Company, built in the 1870s, producing both regular and player pianos. Eventually they began producing records under the Gennett label.
Per the associated Wiki listing, "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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