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People entering a music store to purchase a Columbia record in 1900 would leave not with a flat disc, but a cylinder. Its content would consist of a military band instrumental (probably conducted by John Philip Sousa), a banjo solo, or a comic or "coon" song. There was a reason for such sparse choices: the primitive recording and reproduction techniques meant that brass instruments came through with the greatest clarity, followed by the cutting sound of the banjo, and, lastly, the human...
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