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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3101, 26 January 1909, Page 7

MAKING AMATEUR RECORDS OS THE EDISON PHONOGRAPH. Making Phonograph Records may properly be compared to amateur photography. The first efforts are disappointing. The first pictures made by the smiteur are crude and unsatisfactnrv, and it requires time, care, and study to produce good ones. In making Phonograph Records the same care and persistence is necessary. The amateur should not set his standard too nigh. He should not think that he • can make records equal to the Edison Gold Molded Records now sold, for he will probably never be able to do so. It has taken years of study and oxperimentation on the part of Mr Edison and scores of his assistants to produce recor Js of this quality and volume. When we state that with all fcheir experience and facilities our experts oft. n find it necessary to make a records to get one that is up to the high standard of Edison G >la Moulded Records, one can understand why our records are unequalled, and, also, wh> it is impossible for an inexperienced amaCdur, witn but one record at his disposal, to ?enure the same results. However, amateur records are not made for commercial purposes, but are justly valued because of the personal element that enter? into their pioduction. What does Toother care if the record of bab> : j first words is not loud —it is htir own child's voice which in after years will be priceless to her and to the grown child. Again, the record of a friend's singing' or instrumental work may be technically faulty in reproducton, but is prized for its cherished associations. After all, the wonder and pleasure of hearing one's own voice or music reproduced amply repays the amateur tor the care and patience necessary in making records. And, by repeated trial?, and caraful attention to the instructions given in our booklet, "Making, Records at§Home," result.* are sure to be achieved that will be eminently satisfactory. Remember our recipe for warm nights—"the Edison Phonograph and the front verandah"—and we carry the largest stock of any :inland town in New Zealand. "The Talkeries," Bannister street, Masterton. k ""~ mo3t refreshing of stimulants, and the best known corrective of the system. It nets directly and pleasantly upon the Kidneys and Bladder. m lis Bmmmmmmmmmmmi