Roberto Firpo had probably the most successful orchestra of the late 1910s and early 1920s. It was his integration of his own piano into his orquesta típica which defined the form of the standard tango orchestra. His orchestra made the first ever recording of the most famous tango of all time, La Cumparsita, in 1916, and he pioneered the use of sound effects. After a short break from the Tango, in which he pursued his business interests, he came back in the 1930s with a quartet, recording tangos in the style which had first made him famous
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