A very difficult instrument to record acoustically, the harp gets a very respectible treatment here on a Columbia disc. Composed by Albert Zabel, and recorded on October 8 of 1911, it sounds like what one would expect
for a musical piece about a fountain - lots of cascading melodic runs down the scale - but the dexterity required to play this properly, let alone the engineering to record it acoustically, is remarkable. The record looked
to be in very good shape, and had only been played a few times judging from the few spindle tracks on the label, but the nature of the recording required more noise reduction than usual. A tolerable amount of surface noise
remains.
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