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Lot 14
Electric & Musical Industries Limited, 1969
Estimate : 3,500 - 4,500
This historic document of the Electric & Musical Industries Limited was printed by the American Bank Note Company and has a green ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman sitting next to a harp, globe and fountain. This item has the original signatures of the Company's Authorized Officer and Assistant Secretary.
The History of EMI starts In 1897 when the Gramophone Company began trading in London, intending to establish a European market for the gramophone and its flat disc records. This had already been invented and patented by Emile Berliner in the USA ten years earlier. Initially the Company's catalogue consisted mainly of songs by music hall artists, brass band recordings and other popular material. However, 1902 saw the rise of a young opera star, Enrico Caruso, who recorded ten arias in a hotel room in Milan, and thereby helped to establish the gramophone as a serious medium for classical music. The Gramophone Company flourished, selling both classical and popular recordings across Europe as well as Australia, India and other countries colonised by the British.
Meanwhile, the Columbia Graphophone Company was also establishing itself in Europe. It started by selling the cylinder records and phonographs invented by Thomas Edison, but quickly switched to flat discs. Columbia was soon the main competitor of the Gramophone Company, which had become known as HMV because of its use of the "His Master's Voice" painting as its main trademark. By 1929 record sales were booming as never before, with dance band recordings selling millions of copies. When the Great Depression hit, sales slowed dramatically. To avoid bankruptcy, the Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone Company merged in 1931 to form Electric and Musical Industries (EMI).
In November 1931 EMI opened the world's first purpose-built recording studio complex in North London at 3 Abbey Road, which remains to this day the centre of EMI's recording and post-production work.
In recent years EMI has maintained a strong hold in the world record market by acquiring a number of other important record companies like Chrysalis and Virgin, as well as developing its own brilliant acts. Its past heritage and its current day flourishing catalogue make EMI a stronghold in the record world.
Number: H630510
Shares: 100
Owner: Hertz Warner & Co
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This historic document of the Electric & Musical Industries Limited was printed by the American Bank Note Company and has a green ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical woman sitting next to a harp, globe and fountain. This item has the original signatures of the Company's Authorized Officer and Assistant Secretary.
The History of EMI starts In 1897 when the Gramophone Company began trading in London, intending to establish a European market for the gramophone and its flat disc records. This had already been invented and patented by Emile Berliner in the USA ten years earlier. Initially the Company's catalogue consisted mainly of songs by music hall artists, brass band recordings and other popular material. However, 1902 saw the rise of a young opera star, Enrico Caruso, who recorded ten arias in a hotel room in Milan, and thereby helped to establish the gramophone as a serious medium for classical music. The Gramophone Company flourished, selling both classical and popular recordings across Europe as well as Australia, India and other countries colonised by the British.
Meanwhile, the Columbia Graphophone Company was also establishing itself in Europe. It started by selling the cylinder records and phonographs invented by Thomas Edison, but quickly switched to flat discs. Columbia was soon the main competitor of the Gramophone Company, which had become known as HMV because of its use of the "His Master's Voice" painting as its main trademark. By 1929 record sales were booming as never before, with dance band recordings selling millions of copies. When the Great Depression hit, sales slowed dramatically. To avoid bankruptcy, the Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone Company merged in 1931 to form Electric and Musical Industries (EMI).
In November 1931 EMI opened the world's first purpose-built recording studio complex in North London at 3 Abbey Road, which remains to this day the centre of EMI's recording and post-production work.
In recent years EMI has maintained a strong hold in the world record market by acquiring a number of other important record companies like Chrysalis and Virgin, as well as developing its own brilliant acts. Its past heritage and its current day flourishing catalogue make EMI a stronghold in the record world.
Number: H630510
Shares: 100
Owner: Hertz Warner & Co

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