Show SINGING FOR THE RECORDS y odd and interesting occupation lv in which men and women good compensation ilow how many of those who on a summer evening listen idly to the music oi of the phonograph reeled oft off to 0 o easily and carelessly ever stop atop to think how hovy these records were made or to woj I 1 what were the emotions ot of th the mu musician who poured sweet sound into inanimate earn eara without any oi 01 the inspiration of lights flowers fl owera beala I 1 clothes and an applauding audience although it bring so BO much story glory as singing at the metropolitan opera house this business ot of sing for or records Is a very lucrative one caruso la Is said to shave have made a year in this humble fashion and stars of lesser magnitude may count on 2000 annually which means much more than it would it if gained behind footlights because the phonograph donnot doea not demand that its ita entertainers entertainer keep up with the latest ca prices ot of fashion in the beginning however it Is rather trying stage fright to Is nothing to the feeling with which one confronts that awful horn testifies a young woman who is now singing tor for those silent audiences according to the new york tribune and afterward when the record Is played and one hears bears every false note every clearing ot of ones throat even an audible swallow it to la a wonder any one everead eve ever rhad had the courage to try again yet it is a wonderful experience and one realizes as one never could otherwise how truly marvelous to la the talking machine the phonograph no graph the room where we mako make our rec reca Is an absolutely bare barn like place with a board partition at one end dividing the room proper from the small space where the recording instrument Is placed the horn into which one sings la is suspended from the coiling and protrudes through an opening in the partition grouped around it are the musicians ot of the orchestra ch eitra seated on elevated chairs their music hu bung u g in in front of 0 them on strings and weighted so BO as not ta swing too much in any chance breeze the instruments themselves are the strangest tr angest looking things the violl violins ns instead of the regular body a hollow tube cube affair in which are arranged the strings the cellos are skeleton in construction construct ionno no sides and very slight wooden supports separating the top and bottom of the body and to everyl ev eryl instrument Is attached an aluminum horn directed toward the large horn in the wall to concentrate the souta wave the tha singer linger Is placed on ft a gittli platform directly in front ot of the large receiver then when all Is in readiness he la or she slips down out ot of the way of the sound waves A light gives the he signal and the conductor who Is perched even higher than the music bugl clans starts the orchestra at the side aide of the soloist la is an assistant who w when lion the orchestra begins puts into ined the mouth of the horn ft a large extension so BO as to catch more of the and when the introduction Is finished quickly re removes moves it then the sol soloist olst rising an anc stan standing ding quite close to thi the horr lore sings it Is rather distracting cr one hears ones voice become af once concentrated and more vibrant tijan than usual and one must remor piP those dreadful little sounds which al an audience aud lenca would scarcely notice but which the horn records relentlessly on finishing the verse verae cue cna steps step down below th level of the horn hord the apol assistant stant once more puts on the extension and keeps it in place until the second verse starts this assistant Is a most useful perso for or those I 1 now new to making records tor for he sway a one first forward when one la is using the middle or low ng ster then back tor for the high note it the singer makes a min mistake take ho he stops slope it anything gaea wrone with the recording instrument 9 bell rings and all stop to begin over elgain at a given signal after tho the tons Is finished the rea record to Is played one listens to see sea where it can be improved perhaps in places the orchestra la Is scratchy it if so they rehearse the weak spots once onca or twice 1 then again they take their positions await the red starting sig big ari and try once more the wax disks on which the rec orde are re actually made are behind the partition and alt all about Is I 1 a mass ot of what at first looks like fuzz or fluff aub but I 1 in rea reality aty wax spun off by the noodle needle th these se wax imprints are sent to t tha ho factory about tour four or live five are ar made of tach biach song whore a metal impression ta Is t taken aken from them from this pattern the hard block records are manufactured |