Peter Wyper (1861 in
Lanarkshire
Lanarkshire, also called the County of Lanark (; ), is a Counties of Scotland, historic county, Lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area and registration county in the Central Lowlands and Southern Uplands of Scotland. The county is no l ...
, Scotland
[Henry Doktorski. ]
"Who Was First?" and the Recording of "Vaudeville Accordion Classics"
'. The Free-Reed Journal, November 2004 – 1920) was a player of the
diatonic button accordion
A melodeon or diatonic button accordion is a member of the free-reed aerophone family of musical instruments. It is a type of button accordion on which the melody-side keyboard contains one or more rows of buttons, with each row producing the ...
(or ''melodeon''),
and is believed to be the first person to ever be recorded playing the accordion, which he did on
wax cylinder
Phonograph cylinders (also referred to as Edison cylinders after its creator Thomas Edison) are the earliest commercial medium for recording and reproducing sound. Commonly known simply as "records" in their heyday (c. 1896–1916), a name which ...
in 1903.
[ Peter and his brother Daniel Wyper (b. 1872]
. Fear an Ti, 11 August 2009, RamblingHouse.org
Discography
*''Highland Schottische'' (July 1909,
78rpm
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English) or a vinyl record (for later varieties only) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The g ...
)
*''Selection of Hornpipes'' (Columbia Records, 78rpm)
*''Selection of Jigs '' (Columbia Records, 78rpm)
*''The Deil Among The Tailors/High Level Hornpipe''(Regal Records, G6952, 78rpm)
*''Stirling Castle/Flowers of Edinburgh'' (Regal Records, G6959, 78rpm)
*''Eightsome Reel/Mary of Argyle (Solo) and Jenkin's Hornpipe'' (Regal Records, G6985, 78rpm)
*''Selection of Irish Airs/Selection of Irish Dances'' (Regal Records, G6975, 78rpm)
Bibliography
*''Wyper's Melodeon Tutor for 19-Keys''
References
External links
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Peter and Daniel Wyper'. Keith Chandler, Box and Fiddle Archive
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'. Keith Chandler - 24.12.9
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Scottish accordionists
1861 births
1920 deaths