DESCRIPTION:
David B. Dana, cornet, plays "The Arbucklenian Polka" on a mid-1890s brown wax cylinder. The cylinder announcement does not mention a company, and Dana does not seem to have recorded this for Edison or Columbia, although he did record it in late 1889 for the North American Phonograph Company (this is not that recording; it lacks the channel rim the North American cylinders had). A Dana recording of this piece is listed in the catalog of the United States Phonograph Company from the mid-to-late 1890s; this is probably that recording..