..tucked into her belt?
Helped her to "keep thyme"?

The Victrola horn is being used to gather the sound for the radio broadcast. Note the wires leading from it.

Those common appliances would be 'Lowbrow trash' by the thirties, only to become exquisite antiques of today. The light fixtures alone are worth six figures.

I found a recording of "Kiss Me By Wireless." No words, and I could only somewhat follow along, but it was still fun to hear.

The fellow wearing the headset appears to have a bandage on his nose making me think the piano player belted him too.

I found the lyrics and the cover of the sheet music to "Kiss Me by Wireless," which is the last song in the 10:30-11:30 hour on Woodward & Lothrop's station. Change the below to "cell tower" and there you are.

There's a wireless station down in my heart,
And it calls in my dreams all night long;
It is operating just for you and me,
And it's spanning the hills and the sea.
Your message I love the best,
The call to happiness.

(repeat chorus)

The force was a little too strong with you, no?

Another photo showing how our grandparents and great-grandparents lived in dirty and dusty places. Couldn't anyone see the thick dust settled everywhere? The floor needs sweeping and wax. Grimy fingerprints on the piano...tsk, tsk, tsk.

I guess everyone was waiting for 1935 when Johnson's Wax would become the radio sponsors of Fibber McGee and Molly and America learned to clean and wax!

Or, more likely, her mom. There does seem to be a strong family resemblance between 3NR's soloist and George Booth's irrepressible Norene Ritterhouse, seen here in a detail from her July 7, 1980 New Yorker cover, performing "The Battle of the Somme."

And probably applied by the same hands which selected the dainty wristwatch. Some have a "look" that best befits radio.

It looks like the dear woman might have been the victim of "violins in the workplace"!

Washington, D.C., "Amateur Radio News" from 1926, and a schedule from 1922. Note that the Post Office had its own station. (3:30 p.m. -- "General fruit and vegetables.") Interesting to see how amateur call letters were the 1920s version of screen names ("3NR took a trip to Baltimore").

"Radiophone" would be audio broadcasts, which in 1922 would be heard mostly with headsets. The other broadcasts would, I am guessing, be the original "wireless," i.e. telegraphy.

I count six in the photo: two musicians, one technician, the lady with the hat and two men in the background.

According to the March 10, 1922 "U.S. Broadcast Station List" (Radio Service Bulletin 59), White & Boyer Co. owned WJH, with "authorization to transmit on the 'Entertainment' wavelength of 360 meters (833 kilohertz)."

It also owned amateur station 3NR ("Amateur Radio Stations of the U.S.," Dept. of Commerce, Radio Division). One can only wonder how the stunning virtuosa came by the apparent shiner. Are they playing Rachmaninoff's Vocalise, or something by Gid Tanner and the Skillet Lickers?

I love the pickup horn. The radio engineer in the back does his duty, intently.

Pity the violinist's eyes!

I suppose Princess Leia's kiss of death face stems from blinking during exposure?

Took me a while to find the pretty lady with the turban (?) reflected in the piano. Maybe she should have posed with the fiddle.

to be quite deceased.

I'm wondering if she was going for a really interesting bohemian look. Because if she was, she succeeded.

Did the pianist give her that shiner? "E-flat. E-flat, I tell you!"

From our spacious showroom.

Another marvelous look back. Stations 3NR and WJH? More proof that you've gotta 'full size' these wonderful photos or you'll never come close to full appreciation of the secrets they hold.

With such a small store they must have a small overhead, which is ironic because there's so much over their heads.

I have a friend living on the Upper West Side in an apartment above a professional harpist. Her practicing is totally annoying, not only the harp music but the vibrations. I have to show him this picture in order for him to understand that violence doesn't work, in this case she's still playing her violin.

Second lady has a hat and makes four in the photo. Be still and don't blink.

Chronology of call letters WJH

Date: April 1, 1922-June 30, 1923

Frequency:
833 khz (April 1, 1922-June 30,1922)
1140 khz (June 30, 1923)

Location:
Washington, District of Columbia

Owner of license:
White & Boyer Company

In those days the letters 3NR could be Amateur Radio, or perhaps experimental. Wonder how the violin lady got that shiner? Or was 3NR TV and she was painted up to look good?

And our lesson today is not to use too much rosin on your bow as this may lead to eye-injury.

The store was at 917 G Street in DC. It's now the site of the MLK Memorial Library.

The sign above the piano, and the gent in the background (who is evidently adjusting some equipement with his right hand), make me think this duo is being broadcast live on radio station WJH.

The first broadcast station authorized in the Washington DC area was WJH, the White & Boyer Company, on December 8, 1921, so this would have been a very early broadcast.

Dig the shiner on Miss Fiddle Player

I'm sorry to have to say this, but that worman looks like "Lurch" on the Addams Family.

Someone gave the poor violinist a black eye - did she hit a sour note?