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Charles
Daab
When
Albert Benzler decided to leave Edison in 1908, he recommended
that his friend Charles Daab should audition for the
job. Daab signed an agreement with Edison as a xylophone
and bells recording artist on July 2, 1910. He quickly
made three xylophone and two bells recordings on Edison
two-minute wax cylinders. The Gerhardt Collection includes
recordings in both the Gold Moulded celluloid and Blue
Amberol formats.
In 1916, the same year a new group of xylophone players
joined the Edison stable to replace Charles Daab, he
recorded the duet Marriage Bells, featuring John
F. Burckhardt on bells. With William Dorn, he recorded
a xylophone duet, the “So So” Polka.
Dorn would record one more solo a year later, and Burckhardt
produced two more bells solos and a few piano solos
for Edison as a member of the studio staff. Dorn was
with Edison between 1916 and 1917, and Burckhardt recorded
for Edison between 1916 and 1919.
William
Dorn
Photos
reproduced from Composers and Artists whose Art is
Re-Created by Edison's New Art (c. 1920), Thomas
A. Edison, Inc. Gerhardt Collection
This
information is taken from The New Amberola Graphic,
No. 79 (Jan 1992): 4. See also William Cahn, The
Xylophone in Acoustic Recordings (1877 to 1929).
Bloomfield, NY: Cahn Publishing, 1996.
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