Frank Banta

Banter concerning historic pianists will sooner or later come around to Banta. The early American musician Frank Banta was one of the nation's first major recording artists. During the early days of recording, when the ongoing change between piano rolls, cylinders, and primitive 78s made the compact disc revolution of the '80s seem like static motion, Banta had his fingers in every possible pie, creating documentations of his virtuoso keyboard technique with every recording machine in existence and for every format available. His father was Frank Banta Sr., a classical conduct...