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EDISON LABORATORY RE-CREATION OF MUSIC
shadows of living voices and the perform
ances of living instrumentalists. They are but soulless reflections of the originals—mere mechanical mimicry.
We do not make the foregoing statements in a spirit of animosity toward talking machines, but merely to emphasize their limitations so that by contrast you may the better appreciate the vast difference between talking-machine records and the Edison REe-CREATIONS listed on the following pages.
Edison Rr-CREATIONS are essentially different from talking-machine “records.” They are the only true representations of vocal and instrumental music as produced by living artists. They are not mere shadows. They are the very substance of the living music, alive with all the emotions of the living artist.
The RE-CREATION of music did not come to pass in a day, nor even a year. This unparalleled achievement of Thomas A. Edison represents the expenditure of four years of the tireless energy of the great inventor and his associates, besides an outlay of more than $3,000,000 for experiments alone. These facts are ample evidence that neither pains nor money was spared in evolving the miraculous accomplishment of Music’s RECREATION.
Even when Mr. Edison was satisfied that he had achieved his ambition to RE-CREATE the voice one hundred per cent. true to the original, he did not stop there. He said that it must be proved
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