I think this was recorded in 1904/5 rather than 1903.
@misstoki
2 ай бұрын
@@lutzlupe2966 In my opinion it was recorded before St-Louis' exposition of 1904 since "St-Louis 1904" is missing on label. I have found a document mentioning that Frank Capps the recording engineer had made recording expedition in Europe including in Russia and many European cities. Therefore I had deducted as 1903 the date of recording. However it's still yet to be confirmed for the recording engineer 's identity due to the lack of data.
@misstoki
2 ай бұрын
Also the embossed numbers styling is typical as I found in American discs (mx ca. 1300-1600 for take 1) recorded in 1903 (same for Japanese Columbia discs 2000-ca.2367 which was recorded between April to July 1903 at Tokyo)
@lutzlupe2966
2 ай бұрын
@@misstoki As far as I know, Columbia indeed recorded in Berlin and Peterburg for the first time in late 1902/early 1903. In each city they reached about 200 sides. These were published under a special European label, whereas the discs from their second visit to Europe at the end of 1903 already bore "black and silver" labels in various versions. Since I've never seen any French Columbia displaying the first design, I conclude that they only started on their second tour. Assuming a similar amount as on the first occations (50000 - approx, 50200) matrix number 50420 would fit into a second (1904) or even third visit to Paris.
@martinbryan3716
2 ай бұрын
It would be interesting to know when Paris Columbias stopped using the spoken announcement. Surely they were not announced as late as 1905 (as you suggest)....but who knows?
@misstoki
2 ай бұрын
@@martinbryan3716 I ignore when for Columbia due to lack of data. However this kind of spoken intro is the same type as Odeon discs and were still used even in April 1906 for Odéon using the format "[Title], chanté par [interprets], Disque Odéon" or variants ("Disque Odéon" in spoken intro no longer appears starting May 1906 recordings and afterwards and recordings without spoken intro appeared more often. However Adolphe Bérard still used spoken intro even in 1913)
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