Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-07-22 | Page 13 | Song Factory

SONG PAtJTORY We have the greatest song factory In the country said E K Ijounden of East Orange N J at the Riggs hotel last evening Our beautiful suburb is a regular storage battery of real music It is in East Orange that the singing phonographs are loaded A large staff of musicians supply the I music which Is recorded on the cylinders cylin-ders of these Instruments Some of the best singing talent of New York Brooklyn and other cllles of the neighborhood neigh-borhood Is employed lo sing into the machines which make these records They are paid well for their services 1 think the rule Is a dollar for each I complete record It only requires a few minutes to sing the song and a good voice is1 golden It is hard work I The singer must sing in exactly even time from slart to finish There must be noise all the lime The record Is no photograph Instrument and does nothing for geslures or picturesque eloquence elo-quence For the best records one song Is good for fifteen cylinders After that many has been made the parent l record Is worn out If copies could be made without limit the singers would not be in such great demand Numerous Numer-ous efforts have been made to make one song last indefinitely but the singers sing-ers are congratulating themselves that such mechanlcnl expedIents have failed up lo dale Washington Post