MAY MAKE RECORDS
GRAMOPHONE VENTURE HERE NEW INDUSTRY Auckland singers, elocutionists and others who engage in the dramatic arts, will shortly be able to hear themselves on the gramophone. Maori songs and choruses are also to be recorded in the Maori villages. Mr. M. Rosenthal, of the firm of Picot Rosenthal, Sydney, arrived by the Maheno this morning to establish a gramophone recording plant in New Zealand. This will be erected at either Wellington or Auckland, ar.d Mr. Rosenthal describes it as the •'beginning of another secondary industry.’* and to establish a pressing plant where the records will be made. These records will be sold direct to the retailers who can order as man# of them as they want. Por instance, if an Auckland firm desired to have 1.000 rc-cords of any particular Maori song or chorus we would send our portable recording unit to wherever the Maoris lived, record whatever was necessary and produce th> record*. This will also be done for your local singers, bands or choirs.’*
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 10
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169MAY MAKE RECORDS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 753, 28 August 1929, Page 10
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