Mark,
Thank You! I sincerely appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Tim
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Tim,
Interesting project!
Here are some on line Kryl resources:
1. Kryl is well represented on the LOC National Jukebox.
Try this search.
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/search/results?q=Bohumir%20Kryl
2. Additional information on Victor discs can be found on the UCSB site:
http://victor.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/11872/Kryls_Bohemian_Band_Musical_group
3. The UCSB cylinder site has several Kryl performances also:
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?queryType=%40attr+1%3D1016+&query=Kryl
Mark
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On Jul 10, 2011, at 4:32 PM, "Tim McCormick" <d...@themccormicks.com> wrote:
> Reason for my interest in Kryl:
> I live in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Crawfordsville is the home of
> General Lew Wallace (author of Ben Hur, and a thousand other
> Renaissance Man
> accomplishments) I am one of the trustees for the General Lew Wallace
> Study and Museum (they couldn't find anyone qualified)
> www.Ben-Hur.com In 1897, Lew Wallace build his very own Sanctum
> Santorum, called the Lew Wallace Study - a HUGE one room building for
> his library, painting, music, and writing. The building is adorned
> everywhere with sculpture carved in limestone by none other than
> Bohumir Kryl. Even though I attended IU School of music and have
> played in community bands all my life, up until a week ago, I don't
> know if I ever gave Kryl a second thought. Now that I have started
> researching him, I have become fascinated by this man's work.
>
> What is to become of this research?
> Not only will I write an article for In The groove, but my main
> objective is to create a two person dog and pony show for a live
> audience to be filmed on DVD. I'll do the music side of the man, and
> a museum curator will do the sculpture part. Being an antique
> phonograph enthusiast, I'd much prefer to perform recordings of his
> work from the actual cylinders, Diamond Discs and 78's. I am
> searching for a discography of his work, but I am not sure one has
> been created yet. Fortunately, Kryl was a popular recording artist,
> so his works are not impossible to find. I am just starting from ground zero
> with a delivery date for a presentation in 60 days.
>
> What I have discovered musically - thus far:
> Kryl was a showman. He trained as a circus acrobat. Kryl was a
> physical artist working in stone sculpture. As a musician, he
> attempted the impossible, combining artistic technique with over the
> top showmanship. He was not a musical perfectionist, for every
> recording I have heard of his, there are unintentional mistakes. Many
> of his recordings are attempts at the impossible, so a "fa-nork" here
> or there is more than acceptable. I know of no living brass player
> with his ability to double and triple tongue while jumping octaves, for
> instance.
>
> What sets Kryl apart from other Cornetists:
> 1 - He had a 4 octave range - the ability to play pedal notes on a cornet.
> 2 - He could play a low note on the cornet while humming a higher note
> and the accompanying harmonic would be louder than the two original
> sound sources.
> 3 - He was a world class double and triple tonguing (articulation )
> showman with the ability to pick an higher octave note out of a fast
> moving chromatic scale. He could perform a pizzicato higher octave
> melodic line while maintaining a lower octave moving passage as in his
> third variation in Carnival of Venice.
>
> What I have discovered thus far for a cylinder discography:
> Non-Edison:
> Utility polka - #32033 Columbia Phonograph Co. (1903) Du, du - #1305
> U.S. Everlasting Record - year of release (1909)
>
> Edison Gold Moulded:
> Carnival of Venice - 8253 Edison Gold Moulded Record (1902) King
> Carneval polka - 8663 Edison Gold Moulded Record (1903) Answer - 8254
> Edison Gold Moulded Record (1902) Arbucklenian Polka - 8327 Edison
> Gold Moulded Record (1902) Cary waltz - 8609 Edison Gold Moulded
> Record (1903) Columbia - 8307 Edison Gold Moulded Record (1903)
> Inflamatus from Stabat Mater - 8308 Edison Gold Moulded Record
> (1904-1908) King Carneval polka - 8663 Edison Gold Moulded Record
> (1903) Kryl's favorite - 8745 Edison Gold Moulded Record (1904)
> National fantasia - 8482 Edison Gold Moulded Record (1903) Oh promise
> me - 9005 Edison Gold Moulded Record (1905) Russian fantasia - 8208
> Edison Gold Moulded Record (1902) Sing, smile, slumber - 8418 Edison
> Gold Moulded Record (1904-1908) Sweet sixteen waltz - 8811 Edison Gold
> Moulded Record (1904)
>
> Edison Amberol Wax:
> At the mill - #822 Edison 4-minute Amberol (1911) Orly Polskie - 9812
> Edison 4-minute Amberol Pochod z. Prodané nevěsty - 9809 Edison
> 4-minute Amberol Pode mlejnem - 9807 Edison 4-minute Amberol Povidky
> s. Vidensky lesu - 9813 Edison 4-minute Amberol Praise ye - 790 Edison
> 4-minute Amberol Zeleny hajove - 9808 Edison 4-minute Amberol
>
> Edison Blue Amberol:
> The ambassador polka - 3833 Edison Blue Amberol (1919) Ben Bolt - 3547
> Edison Blue Amberol (1918) Lvi silon - 9860 Edison Blue Amberol
> (1912-1913) Na prej - 9861 Edison Blue Amberol (1913) At the mill -
> 1995 Edison Blue Amberol (1913) - Reissue of Edison 4-minute Amberol
> 822 Orly Polskie - 9862 Edison Blue Amberol (1913) - Reissue of Edison
> 4-minute Amberol 9812 Pochod z. Prodané nevěsty - 9859 Edison Blue
> Amberol (1913) - Reissue of Edison 4-minute Amberol 9809 Pode mlejnem
> - 9857 Edison Blue Amberol (1912-1913) - Reissue of Edison 4-minute
> Amberol 9807 Povidky s. Vidensky lesu - 9863 Edison Blue Amberol
> (1913) - Reissue of Edison 4-minute Amberol 9813.
> Praise ye - 2054 Edison Blue Amberol (1913) - Reissue of Edison
> 4-minute Amberol 790.
> Zeleny hajove - 9858 Edison Blue Amberol (1914) - Reissue of Edison
> 4-minute Amberol 9808.
>
> Luckily he was a popular recording artist, so his recordings are not
> rare today. Unfortunately, I am starting from ground zero. I would
> like to obtain as many of his recordings as possible for the
> presentation. I intend to have all of the recordings digitized first
> for posterity, but my presentation will perform the cylinders, diamond
> discs and 78's on period machines for a live audience. I would like
> to purchase good quality examples of his work for this performance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim
>
> Tim McCormick, President
> Michigan Antique Phonograph Society
> presid...@maps-itg.org
> www.MAPS-ITG.org
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