At some point he came to the United States and played first violin at the Grand Opera House in Chicago in the 1890s.

[4] When a standing orchestra was established at the Edison studios, D'Almaine was made concertmaster.

[2] His musical duties outside the recording studio included positions at the Metropolitan Opera House.

[9] D'Almaine was the fiddle player on Len Spencer's immensely popular "Arkansas Traveler",[10] as well as the first to record "The Irish Washerwoman" (1904),[11] "Flowers of Edinburgh" (1905),[12] and "Tom and Jerry" (1905).

[13] He also made novelty records such as "Donkey and Driver", which includes sound effects generated on his instrument.

His wide repertoire and varied duties demanded a formidable technique, which he rarely got to fully display; the most virtuosic of his "classical" recordings is probably his 1906 rendition of Jean-Delphin Alard's "Brindisi-Valse" for violin and piano, opus 49 no.