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I [e than seven thousand individuals are repre
sented on the Victor records listed in this Catalog.
This figure includes the individual members of orchestras and choruses; but by no means includes all Victor artists. Hundreds of others make records, in more than thirty foreign languages—listed in more than thirty catalogs—for the foreign-born or the foreign-languagespeaking population in the United States alone. Others again, make records only for export. Still others make records, in every quarter of the world, for the foreign
companies affiliated with the Victor. And still others have made records for us which we have dropped from Victor catalogs since the discoveries which have led to the new Victor Radio-Electrola and new Victor records.
In Camden alone, at the principal plant of the Victor Company, three or four famous artists may be recording at once, in different laboratories, oblivious to one another’s presence in the same city. And the same thing is true of the Company’s recording laboratories in New York, at Oakland, Cal., and in a lesser degree, in other places.
The artists who collaborate with us at the Victor are the greatest we can find and engage. A list of them is a roll of honor in the world’s musical history for the past twenty-five years. «Their combined earning power, and the value of the time they have spent with us, are difficult to compute. One Victor artist, now dead, received as