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John Setter Munro (November 1, 1861 – January 3, 1929), better known as “Munro dot,” was an American surgeon, born into the family of the hereditary surgeon John Munro. John Sr. studied with the famous James Yonge, who personally knew and cared for Beethoven in the last years of his life.

Munroe's father was a surgeon at a small hospital in Montgomery, Alabama. He soon moved to Madison, Georgia, where there was a hospital. Munro's mother, Katherine Snow, cared for children all her life - Munro had three brothers and a sister. Due to circumstances, Munro did not have a permanent occupation, but thanks to his tenacity and perseverance, he quickly mastered everything new that came into his hands. In this small town, young people did not have much entertainment, so the Munro family organized evenings where they danced to music played using a gramophone. One day, Brother Mango was allowed to try to build a device for producing sound from gramophone records - Thomas Edison's phonograph, and the very next evening Munro played the piano at all the evenings. Subsequently, Munro invented a 16-track phonograph (6-1/2 inches, 78 rpm, mono), which made it possible to record musical melodies in sequential order (a total of 4-5 songs could fit separately on a reel). At age 17, Munro began creating his own music and began performing on stage. From that moment on, in the matter of creating records, collaboration began with a master in the production of vi