Founder: Vicente Greco
Year: 1910
Formation:
Bandoneon: Vicente Greco y Juan Lorenzo Labissier
Violins:  Juan "Palito" Abatte y Francisco Canaro
Flute: Vicente  "Tano" Pecci
Piano: Agustin Bardi, Domingo  Greco

By the beginning of the 10 decade, a fundamental chapter in the history of our tango was written. The old Tangini house, began to impulse between tango artists the newly born phonographic industry. Albums had become very popular and the recordings that had been registered were very well received by the artists. Tagiani decided to hire Greco’s orchestra to record some tangos. In that moment, it was necessary for the orchestra to adopt a generic denomination to identify itself and to differentiate it from the orchestras that, in addition to tango, also played waltzes, and polkas. The name had to be very distinctive, so people could have the certainty that they only played tango and milonga. Greco adopted the name “Orquesta Típica Criolla” (“Typical Creole Orchestra”), which was later shortened to the name “Typical Orchestra”, which is still used to denominate tango groups. That is how Typical Orchestras were born, hand in hand with phonographic recordings. In time, there would be a great amount of Typical, with artists that are, in a way, in debt with Vicente Greco, the man who founded the tango orchestras. The first album the “Typical Creole Orchestra” recorded included the tangos “Rosendo” and “Don Juan”.

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