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The CoS Tapes #6 — Brass Peacocks 1897-1906

The CoS Tapes are a series of CD-sized compilations available to Centuries of Sounds Members. A donation $5 per month will give you access to these compilations and other member benefits. Join here. John Philip Sousa’s world was a regimented one, as befitted a military band man, but when he left trombonist Arthur Pryor alone …

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The CoS Tapes #2 — Professors of the Xylophone 1897-1916

The CoS Tapes are a series of CD-sized compilations available to Centuries of Sounds Members. A donation $5 per month will give you access to these compilations and other member benefits. Join here. Another compilation of early recorded music – this one has a selection of virtuoso xylophone solos, from the time when this was …

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The CoS Tapes #1 – Vess L. Ossman “A Bunch of Rags”

The CoS Tapes are a series of CD-sized compilations available to Centuries of Sounds Members. A donation $5 per month will give you access to these compilations and other member benefits. Join here. Trailblazing artists are usually better-remembered than Vess L. Ossman. The first musician to make a ragtime record, the ‘King of the Banjo’, …

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