COLUMBIA 78 RPM Record A2890 Charles Ross Taggart “Uncle Zed Buys a Graphophone”

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COLUMBIA 78 RPM Record A2890 Charles Ross Taggart “Uncle Zed Buys a Graphophone”/” Uncle Zed and His Fiddle” VG + + Visible Condition, nice-looking record with a few scuffs and light scratches. Play is noisy to begin but it smooths out as it plays. Same cornball humor as Uncle Josh. This artist however plays some music with his fiddle before talk begins. Uncle Zed Buying a graphophone is pretty funny.

Charles Ross Taggart (19 March 1871, Washington, D.C. - 4 July 1953, Kents Hill, Maine) was an American comedian and folklorist who appeared all over North America as "The Man From Vermont" and "The Old Country Fiddler" from 1895-1938.

On the Chautauqua circuit, Taggart would perform folk music on his violin, sing, play the piano, do ventriloquism, and tell outlandish stories that supposedly took place in rural New England. Taggart retired from performing less than a year after suffering a stroke in 1937.

Taggart grew up in Topsham, Vermont, later living in Newbury for many years, in a house he called "Elmbank," which overlooked the railroad depot. 

He would make over 40 recordings of his "Old Country Fiddler" and "Pineville Folks" monologues with various labels, starting in the 1910s, including Edison, Victor, Columbia, and Brunswick.

Lee DeForest filmed Taggart for a short film "The Old Country Fiddler at the Singing School" made in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film was shown to an invited audience on 12 April 1923 at the Engineering Society Auditorium, and premiered 15 April 1923 at the Rialto Theater in New York City with 17 other films made in the Phonofilm process. This film is now in the Maurice Zouary collection at the Library of Congress.

Columbia matrix 78206. Uncle Zed buys a Graphophone / Charles Ross Taggart

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Title  Source

Uncle Zed buys a Graphophone (Primary title)   Disc label

Descriptive monologue (Title descriptor)   Disc label

Authors and Composers         Notes

Charles Ross Taggart (author)         

Composer information source: Disc label.

Personnel    Notes

Charles Ross Taggart (speaker)       

    Description: Comic monologue

    Category: Spoken

    Language: English

    Master Size: 10-in.

Notes

Source(s): disc.

Take Date and Place      Take  Status         Label Name/Number      Format        Note

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12/16/1918 New York, New York    1        Master        Columbia A2890 10-in.         

12/16/1918 New York, New York    2        Unknown                      

12/16/1918 New York, New York    3        Unknown

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E++, Visibly nearly new with no visible signs of wear or damage.

E+, Looks and plays like new with only few signs of handling and play.

E Still very shiny, near new looking, with slight visible signs of wear and a few nearly inaudible scuffs and scratches

E- Still shiny but without the luster of a new record, few scuffs that have little or no effect on play, some light scratches.

E- - Mostly shiny but with even less of the luster of an E- record, more scuffs than E-that have little or no effect on play, light scratches with some light noise.

VG+, Slightly above average condition 78 in which scuffs and general use has dulled the finish somewhat. Wear is moderate but playing is generally free from distortion. Surface noise not overly pronounced.

VG, An average condition 78 - moderate wear throughout, but still very playable and enjoyable. Surface somewhat dull with noise and scratches audible but not intrusive.

VG-, Quite playable still, but with some distortion and may have some graying in loud passages. Music remains loud in most passages. Surface noise and scratches well below music level.

VG- - Quite playable still, but with distortion and most have some graying in loud passages. Music remains loud in most passages. Surface noise and scratches noticeable and may be loud at times.

G+ Quite worn and scratched, but music level is still higher than surface noise. Grey may be throughout but still serviceable. Music begins to sound muffled.

G Not so good. Wear and scratch damage extensive. Listening can become uncomfortable as music and surface noise probably blending. Lowest level music can be understood.

G-, Music barely audible over surface noise & listening is uncomfortable. Record is borderline unplayable.

P Used only for high dollar space fillers like Black Patti, Okeh blues, etc. Music covered by surface noise, scratches, and needle digs, label may be trashed, & listening is almost if not definitely impossible. Record is basically unplayable. What you keep because you can?t bear to toss ? while you look for that E+ copy of Robert Johnson on Vocalion at the local flea markets for $1 (Good Luck!)

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