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15th Apr 2016, 12:54 AM
	scrough 🍰 No picture 'cos I'm not into 45rpm :( Member since Jan 2013 3428 Points Moderator	Victor sold 797,437,101 records between 1901 and 1941 (honestly! I looked it up). That's an average of ~8000 records per catalogue number which is quite small, so some Victors ( and many of the other big companies outputs) are probably extinct. Quote: One interesting aspect of 78s is that until, I guess, the 1930s the technology did not allow large pressing runs from one master, so if the record sold well, the artists involved would have to keep going back into the studio to re-record the track. The same catalogue number might be used on many different recordings. No, large pressing runs had been solved before 1910, and were used by HMV in their new 1907 UK factory. (Berliner/G&T could produce sub 1000 copies from a recording c.1900). But the recording technology improved, so by about 1923 material was being re-recorded. But then in 1925 along came electric recording which caused a huge amount of re-recording.

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