George Walter DILLNUTT

PIONEERRESPOND

George Walter DILLNUTT 1883 - 1937


aka	George W. Dillnutt, G. W. Dillnutt, G. Dillnutt, George Dillnutt
nationality
occupation

birth	.. July/Aug/Sep 1883, Bermondsey, St. Saviour, Southwark, London, Surrey (FreeBMD: 1d 43)
baptism
death	.. Oct/Nov/Dec 1937, Braintree, Essex, ENGLAND
burial

marriage	married on .. July/Aug/Sept 1922 in Brentford, Middlesex to: (Alice) Rosina (M.) S. CHAPMAN b. .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1886, ......, Islington, London, Middlesex d. .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1966, Hillingdon, Greater London (formerly married to Arthur SLOGGETT
children	Francis G. DILLNUTT b. 3 July 1924, Paddington, Greater London d. 22 Aug 2015, Hunstanton, ENGLAND Peter Walter b. .. Jan/Feb/Mar 1926, Hammersmith, London d. ............
remark	On .. Apr/May/June 1911 Rosina S. CHAPMAN had married Arthur A. SLOGGETT in ....., Holborn, London, Middlesex

PARENTS

father	Henry Francis DILLNUTT b. 30 May 1841, Lambeth, Holborn, Middlesex d. .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1930, Wandsworth, Greater London, ENGLAND (89y)
mother	Mary Elizabeth MOSELEY b. .. July/Aug/Sept 1847, Hoxton, Shoreditch d. .................
marriage	they got married on 28 Jan 1865, St Giles, Cripplegate, East London, London, Middlesex.
children	Mary Eliza b. .. Apr/May/June 1868, Clerkenwell, Middlesex Caroline Rose b. 1 Oct 1970, Lambeth, London William b. .. Jan/Feb/Mar 1875, Islington, London Annie Gertrude b. .. Jan/Feb/Mar 1876, ........... Jessie/Jane Alice b. .. Jan/Feb/Mar 1881, Camberwell George Walter b. .. July/Aug/Sep 1883, St. Saviour, London, Surrey d. .. Oct/Nov/Dec 1937, Braintree, Essex, ENGLAND Emily Henrietta b. .. Jan/Feb/Mar 1886, St. Saviour

LIFE

1891 British Census (Lambeth, London):
Henry Dillnutt (50y; Lambeth) bookbinder
Mary DILLNUT (43y; Hoxton); )
- Mary (22y; Clerkenwell)
- Caroline (20y; Lambeth)
- William (17y; Islington)
- Annie (15y; Clerkenwell)
- Jessie (10; Camberwell)
- George (7y; Bermondsey)
- Emily (5ye; Bermondsey)

1901 British Census (Southwark):
Henry DILLNUTT (60y) bookbinder
Mary (53y; Clerkenwell)
- Annie (25y; Camberwell)
- Jessie (20; Bermondsey)
- George (19y; Bermondsey) electrician assistant
- Emily (15y)

Accompanied Fred Gaisberg on 1902 Far-Eastern tour (see: A Voice in Time)

recorder GRAMCO (monograms/suffixes: n/o/p; ak/al ; BK/CK)

resident recording expert of The Gramophone Company in India from mid 1908 until 1910: and from late 1915 to 1921 (source; Kinnear)

During January, 1909, some Chinese recordings were made by another G&T expert, George Walter Dillnutt, in Singapore and Macao. Forty-eight records made in this session appeared in a G&T catalogue issued in 1909. These records used matrix numbers from 10356o to 10407o (Fig. a) and were issued in the 7-12000, 7-13000 and the 7-14000 series (Fig.1). In March, 1910, Dillnutt recorded forty-two Chinese discs in Bangkok using the same series numbers as those of 1909.
(from: The Development of Chinese Records from the Qing Dynasty to 1918 by Du Jun Min)

Mr. G. W. DILLNUTT
SS "KINFAUNS CASTLE
dep. Durban, NATAL, SOUTH AFRICA: ....... 1912
arr. Southampton, ENGLAND
(East London, Port Elizabeth [Algoa Bay], Cape Town, Madeira)

Mr. G. W. DILLNUTT (36y)
SS "NARKUNDA"
dep. Bombay, INDIA: ......... 1920
arr. London, ENGLAND: 19 June 1920
(via Aden, Port Said, Marseilles, Gibraltar, Plymouth)

George Walter DILLNUTT recording expert
SS "NARKUNDA"
dep. Colombo, CEYLON: .......... 1921
arr. London: 13 Aug 1921
(ship came from Sidney, AUSTRALIA)

Visited USA in 1929:
George DILNUTT recording expert
SS "HOMERIC"
25 June 1929, Southampton
2 July 1929, NY

George DILLNUTT recorder (Hayes, Middlesex)
SS "OLYMPIC"
dep. New York: .. Aug 1929
arr. Southampton: 16 Aug 1929

residence in 1932: 73, Argyle Road, West Ealing (EMI correspondence)

George W. Dillnutt (in BRITISH PHONE BOOKS)
residence in 1926-1928: 298 Goldhawk rd W.12 (Riverside)
residence in 1929: 73, Argyle Road, W.13 Ealing
residence in 1930-1932: 7 Sharon rd. W.4 (Chiswick)
residence in 1937: Rook Hall, Cressing, Braintree (Silver End)

Matrix Doublet ak / al.
Recorded by George W. Dillnutt

List of Recording Sessions of G. W. Dillnutt (1907-1910)

**Recordings made by George Walter Dillnutt**
Place	Session dates			ak - 10”			al - 12”			Comment
Budapest	-7-11	to	-7-11	1	to	57				(WE 22/7/11)
Esseg (?Szeged)	26-07-11	to	-8-11	58	to	105				(WE 6/8/11)
Agram (Zagreb)	-8-11	to	-8-11	106	to	192				(WE 6&13/8/11)
Drama	21-08-11	to	21-08-11	193	to	212				AK
Salonika	27-08-11	to	03-09-11	213	to	359				AK
Stuttgart	19-09-11	to	25-09-11	360	to	484	1	to	4
Mannheim	27-09-11	to	29-09-11	485	to	546	5	to	10
Berlin	01-10-11	to	15-12-11	547	to	851	11	to	98
Cape Town	01-03-12	to	22-03-12	852	to	976	99	to	111
Johannesburg	30-03-12	to	27-04-12	977	to	1117
Berlin	03-07-12	to	16-07-12	1118	to	1170	112	to	133
Bucarest	-8-12	to	-8-12	1171	to	1322				(WE 17/8/12)
Berlin	30-08-12	to	12-10-12	1323	to	1642	134	to	282
Posen (Poznan)	-10-12	to	-10-12	1643	to	1743				(WE 19/10/12)
Berlin	22-10-12	to	30-11-12	1744	to	1969	283	to	325
Berlin	28-02-13	to	02-05-13	1970	to	2204	326	to	417
Vienna	08-07-13	to	-7-13	2205	to	2410
Calcutta	06-09-15	to	24-09-15	2411	to	2484
Delhi	01-10-15	to	30-10-15	2486	to	2791
Bombay	05-11-15	to	30-11-15	2792	to	3035
Rangoon	16-12-15	to	10-01-16	3036	to	3317
Calcutta	25-01-16	to	21-02-16	3318	to	3547
Singapore	-4-16	to	-4-16	3548	to	3795
Calcutta	26-06-16	to	01-07-16	3796	to	3871
Colombo	28-08-16	to	02-09-16	3872	to	4003
Madras	17-09-16	to	05-10-16	4004	to	4157
Calcutta	17-10-16	to	25-10-16	4158	to	4211
Allahabad	09-11-16	to	13-11-16	4212	to	4250
Phagwara	16-11-16	to	26-11-16	4251	to	4441
Delhi	03-12-16	to	13-12-16	4442	to	4585
Bombay	19-12-16	to	10-01-17	4586	to	4704
Calcutta	17-01-17	to	23-03-17	4705	to	4944
Bombay	18-05-17	to	23-06-17	4945	to	5054
Singapore	14-08-17	to	05-09-17	5055	to	5347
Calcutta	01-10-17	to	13-10-17	5348	to	5456	418	to	420
Bombay	-17	to	-17	5457	to	5706
Kristiania	31-07-19	to	13-08-19	5707	to	5883	421	to	438
Cairo	28-10-19	to	-10-19	5884	to	6297	439
Calcutta	-12-19	to	-12-19	6298	to	6620				(remaining dates
Singapore	-1-20	to	-1-20	6621	to	6765				are estimated)
Rangoon	-2-20	to	-2-20	6766	to	6819
Lahore	-3-20	to	-3-20	6768	to	6942
Bombay	-4-20	to	-4-20	6976	to	7120
Calcutta	-5-20	to	-5-20	7121	to	7336
Delhi	-6-20	to	-6-20	7337	to	7626
Calcutta	-12-20	to	-12-20	7627	to	7659
Bombay	-1-21	to	-1-21	7660	to	7721
Rangoon	-3-21	to	-3-21	7748	to	7950
Calcutta	-3-21	to	-3-21	7975	to	8016
Madras	-4-21	to	-4-21	8017	to	8078
Colombo	-21	to	-21	8079	to	8179

The Fred Gaisberg Diaries Part 1 - USA & Europe (1898 - 1902) (illustrated)

by Fred Gaisberg

The Fred Gaisberg Diaries Part 2 - Going East (1902 - 1903) (illustrated)

by Fred Gaisberg

NOTES

The Fred Gaisberg Diaries - Part 7 (in: The Talking Machine Review No. 63-64, Autumn 1981, pp. 1765-1768)

The Fred Gaisberg Diaries - Part 8 (in: The Talking Machine Review No. 68, June 1984, pp.) 1849-1850)
[end of series, but not end of diary]

Music on Record, p. 52

A Voice in Time, pp/ 77-78, 81, 84, 100, 175, 208

The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recordings. 1899-1908 by Michael Kinnear, p. 10-13, 17, 21, 27-28, 30-31, 64

A look at the engineers who made history travelling the world recording its music by Paul Vernon (online article)
Originally published in: Vintage Jazz Mart No. 94 , 1994. Copyright belongs to the author. Electronic edition by Lars Fredriksson, April 17, 1997

Man Who Recorded 80,000 voices! How Melba stormed and threatened: Patti's Mood by George W. Dillnutt ("for 35 years chief recording engineer")(in: The People of Sunday June 7, 1936 (page no. unknown).

HMV The Gramophone Company Matrix Series Identifying Letters: A Summary by John Milmo (online publication; revised 21 June 2020)

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From l. to r.: Fred Gaisberg, Carrie?/Louise? Gaisberg, George Dillnutt. In front: Dillnutt's sons Peter (left) and Francis (right) courtesy: Peter Beckett

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