Twin Keyboards: Museum Object and Cultural History
Twin Keyboards: recording date: 1945. associated person: Sparnon, Ken. Object Name: sound recording.
The object in the museum catalogue
[artist not listed]. Twin Keyboards (WHEC Radio). 78 rpm. single-face disc. for use on August 19, 1945.
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.
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.
A companion collection, Kenneth H. Sparnon Collection, Archives Collection #64, is housed in the National Museum of American History, Archives Center.
Materials, dates and provenance
- recording date: 1945
- associated person: Sparnon, Ken
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: shellac (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 16 in; 40.64 cm
- place made: United States: New York, Rochester
- ID Number: 1980.0797.12
- accession number: 1980.0797
- catalog number: 1980.0797.12
- Credit Line: Gift of Arabella S. Sparnon
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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