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By LISAG. CURRIE
Rappahannock Newg Staff Writer
It’s been nearly 115 years since Thomas Alva Edison directed his inventive genius toward producing the first phonograph, a revolutionary device that recorded sound and replayed it at the listener’s desire.
Voice recordings have come along way from the early “78s,” starting in the last century as completely acoustic recordings often sounding scratchy and gritty, to high-tech reproductions on compact discs — digital recordings read by a laser producing flawless audio quality.
Modern recordings can be found in nearly any music store.
“Sounds of a Century” can only be found in Richard “Dick” Pierson’s basement.
“It’s the name of the business, the collection and the radio show,” Mr. Pierson said, sitting in his Amissville kitchen while his wife, Ginny, prepared a threetiered wedding cake for an afternoon reception.
While Mr. Pierson has been instrumental in developing the newest production for the Rapphannock Players, “On The Air,” a play depicting a day in the life of the talk-radio shows during the “Golden Age of Radio,” his love of music is only a hobby. He is a calligrapher by trade, a penman.
Mr. Pierson graduated from Zanerian College of Penmanship in Ohio and produces testimonials, resolutions, diplomas, charters, awards, certificates and other like items for several national and local groups — like the AFL-CIO, the Fauquier Bar Association, Federal Communications Commission and others. “I also did the Nixon innagural invitations,” Mr. Pierson said.
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