It's time again for Three Tune Tuesday, that day of the week where members of the Hive community shares three songs of their liking with the rest of the community.

I take a slow, relaxing approach to Three Tune Tuesday. I encourage you to take a few moments and slow down with me. Settle down, close your eyes, and take yourself back.. way back.. in time, to a distant uncle's parlour in the early 1920's. There are comfortable seats, pleasant conversation, and an old wind up phonograph that Uncle is using to play some songs.




![Blind Skeleton Three Tune Tuesday Transparent.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/wwwiebe/23uEzFv5eB3NHLURnDEWqes3fTcsXkgJqG74JAwiiAj9vKDazD9DV8ZFmK1SeKqRjNNiD.png)

Also, in honour of @old-guy-photos' #treetuesday, I am offering photos of three trees! #ThreeTuneTreeTuesday! Booya!


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(notice the absence of decorations on the bottom of that tree; that is by design to allow the cats a foothold before they start scaling the inside of the tree)

**Silent Night**

Our first song tonight is *Silent Night* by Frieda Hempel, a German soprano. She was an opera singer (as many of the famous singers were of the day) in the early 20th century who made a good name for herself in both Europe and the United States.

https://youtu.be/sVK6g6SpBSE



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**The Holy City**

The second song this week is fun for me in the sense that this is the first time I have used this particular phonograph as part of #ttt. *The Standard Talking Machine Company* existed as an entity from 1901-1918. Mostly it sold re-branded Columbia phonographs and re-labelled Columbia records. The primary difference between *Standard* and the other "needle cut" phonographs of the day was that the center spindle on the Standard's turntable was larger than the others, making playing them on non-Standard equipment difficult.

I have not been able to find much information about this particular song. The label indicates that it is "Number 60" and, considering I have the record labelled "Number 123" and know it is from 1901, I'm going to go on a limb and suggest that this song - *The Holy City* - was also produced in 1901.

https://youtu.be/zZGTNOYn2FY


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So this red tree might be cheating for Tree Tuesday. It's a little tinsel tree sitting atop my Brunswick phonograph. But it's cute.


**Cantique de Noel**

The final Christmas themed song this week is *Cantique de Noel*, sung by Enrico Caruso in 1915. Caruso was also an opera singer, very famous for the role of Canio and the opera Pagliacci. This song is absolutely magnificent.

https://youtu.be/xCgM2BFJ3QQ



Three Tune Tuesday (TTT) is initiated by @ablaze. 

I run a live stream of my TTT songs every Tuesday at 12:00pm EDT, then take that stream and share the songs from it here, on Hive, on Wednesday (or occasionally Thursday). These songs are all old pre-1923 78rpm records from my collection, played on my antique phonographs and recorded with a well placed microphone. Like what you hear? Come listen live!

Online Radio: https://blindskeleton.one/radio/
Three Tune Tuesday Live Stream: 12:00pm (noon) EST

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