If this is your first page of entry please head for the start and read the articles in order! A feature pertaining to History of the Vinyl Record" would be incomplete without a mention of the little fox terrier who became famous as the dog "Nipper. Nipper the dog was born in Bristol in 1884, but as the little dog got older he was given the name Nipper because he had a habit of nipping people's leg at the ankle especially, visitors to the home of his master. Indeed, he was a naughty little dog, but he was quite a character as you will no doubt ascertain as you read further on. In1887 Nipper's master Mark Barraud had died in anguish and penniless in Bristol. During that same year, Mark Barraud younger brother Francis Barraud, a painter, took charge of Nipper and went to reside in Liverpool with him. Nipper was a mixture of bull terrier and fox terrier combined and Nipper often spent a lot of time by the cylindral phonograph recording and playing machine as if waiting to hear his master' voice, well that was how it appeared to be anyway! But if you can bring your imagination to the fore and imagine a dog being intrigued by strange looking instrument that made sounds like a human voice: then you can you can understand Nipper looking rather puzzled by a voice that came from the horn of a phonograph. |
