Sheffield Historical Society announces its February Meeting
John-Arthur Miller, a Sheffield resident and Director of the Sheffield Senior Center, will share some of his collection on cylinders and disks of Edison, Victor, and Columbia in a program about early music recording technologies called "Edison Meets Victor or Nipper's Valentine." The program will take place at the meeting of the Sheffield Historical Society on Friday, February 13, at 7:30 pm in Dewey Memorial Hall.Although trained as a classical singer, Mr. Miller has also been a collector and appreciator of acoustic recordings and the phonograph machines upon which they were played since his childhood. He has fond memories of marching to John Phillip Sousa records on his grandfather’s Edison Diamond Disk Phonograph.
His presentation will include historic recordings from that finite era starting with Edison’s invention in 1877 to the beginnings of electronic recording of the mid 20s, and the virtual end of the acoustic era with the crash of 1929. So bring along your Valentine to enjoy love songs; learn the difference between “hill-and-dale” and lateral cut; and, finally, meet “Nipper."
Society meetings are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. If unfamiliar with Sheffield and its environs, Dewey Memorial Hall is the historic building located on the Green, immediately south of the post office.
