The result was the Improved Record label, which dropped the Consolidated Talking Machine Company name. A-56 was recorded on June 7, 1900, and remade on November 6.Ĭenter Left: Johnson was ordered not to use the word Gram-o-phone on March 1, 1901. Left: The first Eldridge Johnson label, introduced on seven-inch discs in the spring of 1900. 382,790 of May 15, 1888, is concerned with the zinc plate recording process. 534,543 of February 19, 1895, deals with the gramophone machine itself, while No. 372,786 of November 8, 1887, deals with both the gramophone itself and a recording process on cylinders No. This seems evident from the three patent numbers on the identification plate for the 1895 Berliner Gramophone, shown in Part One of this article. ![]() Berliner received forty percent of the stock, for which he gave Johnson the rights to the gramophone patents, which apparently included those for both the manufacture of gramophones and the recording process. When he became embroiled in litigations over various patent rights, he approached Emile Berliner, and founded the Victor Talking Machine Company on October 3, 1901. However, the worldwide importance of the recordings and related activities of the Victor Company impels the writer to present a detailed study of the matrix number systems used by them.Įldridge Reeves Johnson founded the Consolidate Talking Machine Company in August 1900. The Victor releases of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas were imported and repressed from the original Gramophone Company matrices. None of these have discernible matrix numbers. Pinafore, the Civic Light Opera Company's Mikado, and the 1932 Pirates of Penzance. The Victor Company and its successors made no Gilbert and Sullivan recordings of any note, except the three sets on so-called long playing discs of the Victor Light Opera Company's H.M.S. ![]() ![]() See Also: Matrix and Catalog Numbers in G&S Discography Gramophone Company Matrix and Catalog Numbers Matrix Numbers in Recordings of Gilbert & Sullivan Summary of Recording Histories Table of Contents Victor's Use of Matrix Numbers Matrix Numbers on Other Record Labels Bibliography This is the third part of a four-part article on Matrix and Catalog Numbers in G&S Discography.
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