Twin Keyboards
date: label: recording date
content: 1945
name: label: associated person
content: Sparnon, Ken
notes: label: Description
content: <p>[artist not listed]. Twin Keyboards (WHEC Radio).<br>78 rpm. single-face disc. for use on August 19, 1945.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>This recording is of the closing music for the radio program “Twin Keyboards,” performed by Rochester, New York Radio Station WHEC musical director Ken Sparnon with colleague Matt Pierce.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Kenneth H. Sparnon (1895-1972) was a pianist, organist, trombonist, and arranger who performed in vaudeville and in movie theater stage shows. He was also music director of radio stations in Syracuse and Rochester, New York and provided consultant services to radio music directors as an employee of the Broadcast Music Inc.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>A companion collection, Kenneth H. Sparnon Collection, Archives Collection #64, is housed in the National Museum of American History, Archives Center.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Rochester
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Arabella S. Sparnon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0797.12
label: accession number
content: 1980.0797
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0797.12
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sound recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: shellac (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in; 40.64 cm