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John Baltzell was among the first old-time fiddlers to become captured with the newly developing saving technology of the first ’20s. The initial sessions he documented for Edison in nov 1923 came just three months following the documenting debut of Fiddlin’ John Carson, possibly the initial historical American old-time fiddler …

b. John Leroy Baltzell, 23 Sept 1860, Harrison Township, Knox Region, Ohio, USA, d. 1940. Baltzell discovered to try out fiddle as a kid and became probably one of the most documented from the old-time fiddlers. Small is well known of his early years except that he performed at dances …