ABSTRACT
A New York record from Everybodys (sic) Record, Inc., with about 85 releases in 1925. Most of the material-dance and popular music-was from Emerson and Paramount. A firm named Bristol and Barber and Co., Inc., of New York, handled promotion and sales. [Rust 1978.]
A New York firm founded in November 1897. It sold the Excelsior cylinder player and brown-wax cylinders. In 1897 it acquired a manufacturing the plant operated by Roger Harding at 18 E. 22nd Street, retaining Harding as manager. William F. Hooley replaced him in August 1898. In advertising of June 1898, the firm’s name was Excelsior and Musical Phonograph Co., with the address 57 W. 24th Street. By January 1899 the firm had relocated to 5 East 14th Street. At that time the artists on Excelsior included W. Paris Chambers, S.H. Dudley, William F. Hooley, and Cal Stewart. There were also songs in German and Italian, and there was material for banjo, bells, and cello. The Excelsior Band and Orchestra was a featured ensemble. [Martel 1988.]
The assembly used by the G&T from 1901, based on the Jones soundbox of 1899. It was identifiable by the tension-nut at the top. The device had many imitators in several countries. [TMR 33 (1975) gives 11 illustrations of authentic and spurious Exhibitions.]
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