Name: The Myrtle Villa Polka by Hellinski
Duration: 2 min 1 s
Description: A polka written in the 1870s by Franz Louis Leopold Becker (c.1840-1897)for his patron William K. Lockhead of Myrtle Villa (later Corlette's Cottage)

This 1924 gramophone recording of W Rimmer’s ‘Honest Toil March’ is performed by the Australian Newcastle Steelworks Band.
NFSA title: 560469
This recording was one of many made in London by the Australian Newcastle Steelworks Band for the Aeolian Company. The sound quality and loud volume of brass bands was well suited to the limited ability of acoustic recording technology available in 1924. With no electronic amplification, acoustic recording equipment converted sound waves directly into mechanical movement of a stylus that would cut the sound into the groove of the disc. The sound mix for acoustic recordings was controlled by placement of the instruments around the recording horn, with quiet instruments placed near the horn to increase their apparent volume and louder instruments placed further away.

Honest Toil March - the Newcastle Steelworks Band (1924)

A polka written in the 1870s by Franz Louis Leopold Becker (c.1840-1897)for his patron William K. Lockhead of Myrtle Villa (later Corlette's Cottage)

The Myrtle Villa Polka

A beautiful waltz with many sections written by Marmaduke Henry Wilson (1834-1871) who settled in Maitland, NSW in 1863

The Myrtle Villa Polka

Hellinski

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