The Starr Piano Company, based in Richmond, Indiana, quickly became one of the largest piano manufacturers in the United States during the 19th century.
In 1915, the Starr Piano Company opened a recording division, Gennett Records, that led to a dynamic change in the music industry and American culture.
Gennett embraced the vastly under-recorded genres of jazz, blues, and country music in the 1920s.
They recorded artists who were groundbreakers and innovators in both popular and vernacular mu.
Arcadia Publishing (sc) Gennett records and starr piano, paperback/charlie b. dahan
