![]() A photostatic copy is in the compiler’s files the location of the original is unknown. Gouldrup, Local Manager, Columbia Phonograph Co., to Wm. Advertisement in the Columbia Record, Sep. The figure is for the fiscal year ending Sep. A set of early issues, invaluable to this research, is located at the Library of Congress.” ReturnĢ8. The best single source of information on these labels is Sutton, Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers.” ReturnĢ6. ![]() ![]() Background on the singers mentioned has been drawn from Marco and from Moses, American Celebrity Recordings, 1900-1925.” ReturnĢ3. The inception of Victor’s Red Seal series is thoroughly described in Fagan and Moran, Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings, Matrix Series 1-4999, xxiixxiii. Perhaps they meant two recording sessions.” ReturnĢ0. The reference to Adams is puzzling since she in fact recorded seven titles. ![]() 4, 1903, which means the sessions were probably in December or January.” Returnġ9. The special brochure introducing the records included testimonial letters from the artists, written when they first heard the recordings. A story and advertisement for the recordings appears in the Music Trade Review, Apr. The Mexico City laboratory was announced in the Jan. See Columbia Matrix Series appendix for details on these series. Edison produced approximately seven million cylinders and Victor turned out two million discs in 1903, according to the previously mentioned sources.” Returnġ7. Presumably Columbia adopted the same technology.” Returnġ6. This scenario is based on parallel developments at Victor, as described in Fagan and Moran, EDVR, Pre Matrix Series, xviii. 40 Collector’s Guide to Victor Records, 168-69.” Returnġ5. The Victor figures, from a 1943 court case, have also been reprinted in the Hillandale News (see Walsh), and in Sherman, The end p. Antique Phonograph Monthly, 3, for Edison Walsh, Hobbies, 38, for Victor. Wile, “The American Graphophone Company and the Columbia Phonograph Company Enter the Disc Record Business, 1897-1903,” 215.” Returnġ3. 688,739) is found on page lii.” Returnġ2. Koenigsberg, Patent History of the Phonograph, 1877-1912, li. Baumbach, Columbia Phonograph Companion, Vol. Sutton, Directory of American Disc Record Brands and Manufacturers, 1891-1943, 187.” Returnġ0. Lyle, in court documents cited by Wile, “The American Graphophone Company and the Columbia Phonograph Company Enter the Disc Record Business, 1897-1903,” 214.” Returnĩ. The quote is from Columbia Vice President Mervin E. See advertisement in Music Trade Review, Feb. According to researcher Allen Koenigsberg, a sales brochure exists for the Lyrophone ( sic), but it is uncertain whether any were actually manufactured. 3), for Edison cylinder production, and Wile (1979): 139-43, for Berliner disc production.” ReturnĦ. See article in Antique Phonograph Monthly (Dec. While Columbia production figures are unknown, those of its main competitors have been located in court cases. The seminal work in this area is Wile, “The American Graphophone Company and the Columbia Phonograph Company Enter the Disc Record Business, 1897-1903,” to which the reader is referred for greater detail.” Returnĥ. (Information supplied by Raymond Wile.)” ReturnĤ. Phonograph Company (managed by George Tewksbury), which continued to manufacture cylinders under the “New Jersey” name. In 1893 it assigned its rights to the U.S. The New Jersey Phonograph Company was one of the original licensees of the North American Phonograph Company, and an active producer of musical cylinders in the early 1890s. For a more detailed treatment of Columbia’s activities during its first ten years, see Brooks, “Columbia Records in the 1890’s: Founding the Record Industry,” and “A Directory to Columbia Recording Artists of the 1890’s.” Returnģ. All three will be referred to here, generically, as “phonograph.” ReturnĢ. Chief among them were the phonograph (Edison), Graphophone (Bell-Tainter) and Gramophone (Berliner), the first two playing cylinders and the third, discs. Early sound recording/reproducing machines were known by several names, according to their inventors or manufacturers. Notes to Columbia Records, 1901-1934: A HistoryĬolumbia Master Book, Volume I, Tim Brooks, ed.ġ.
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