Pioneer recording artist and clarinetist William Tuson performs Heart Bowed Down.
Heart Bowed Down
Company
Edison's National Phonograph Company
Cylinder #
8455
Category
Clarinet solo
Title
Heart Bowed Down
Performed by
William Tuson
Circa
1904
Announcement
"Clarinet solo, Heart Bowed Down, aria from the Bohemian Girl, played by William Tuson. Edison record."
Many people, when asked to envisage a pioneering recording artist,
might not come up with a clarinetist. But why not?
The clarinet, like the cornet, produced a loud and relatively simple sound
that was perfect for recording on the early phonographs.
Clarinetist William Tuson's name appears frequently, beginning in 1889,
in the earliest extant phonograph recording logs from Edison's Laboratory,
recording dozens of clarinet solos for Edison up through the mid-1900's.
