people tried to imitate coleman whether they were from sligo or whether they're from cork or donegal.onger was the case that you could tell where somebody was from by listening to them. that was the beginning that this was starting to be homogenized. in a positive way, technology has helped this music in that there's an awful lot of recordings of very good music out there. so it's brought it to a wider listening public. (tesar) very, very early days, some phonograph recordings were cut right to wax. they'd stand in the room and the cutting lathe would cut the original master right into wax, which, by the way, had to be very soft, so it had to be very hot. so a lot of the old-time musicians will tell stories about the early days of recording like almost stripping down in their underwear and going in this room and recording for three minutes. it's 130 degrees in this little room because it's got to be hot enough for the wax to be soft enough for the lathe to cut it and everything was done live right there. [jazzy keyboard music] certainly, things are pretty easy. we've got air-condition

when cecil brown was murdered last august, no one on this dead end creek just off sligo creek parkwayld have suspected his 68-year-old wife arlene brown who told police she found her husband dead in the backyard when she returned home, but police arrested mrs. brown and 49-year-old hussein ali and charged them both with conspiracy to commit murder. neighbors who knew arlene are in disbelief. >> they seemed like such a loving couple. they got along so well. it's a shock. >> reporter: the brown home has been empty for some time. some neighbors say she was involved in the neighborhood and at least one of them saw her there this past week. >> i knew him pretty well. he did some work for us, also, when well first moved in and he -- when we first moved in and he was really an upstanding kind of person, always held his back very straight and never had a bad thing to say about anybody. >> reporter: it's not clear what kind of relationship mrs. brown had with man. there was some kind of disturbance at the home on the day of the murder. >> arlene did a lot for our neighborhood and community, bu