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The Victot RECORD CATALOG
ORE than seven thousand individuals are represented on MI 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 foreignborn or the foreign-language-speaking 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 Orthophonic Victrola and new Orthophonic 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 much as ten thousand dollars for a single operatic performance.
In bringing these artists together for you, to play, sing, or otherwise entertain you, we always have done so with the unbroken determination to give you the very best the world can produce, in every class of music. And we shall never do otherwise.
When you come to look over what Victor artists have done for your pleasure in music, you will notice some things about the way we bring it to your attention in this Catalog.