of New York wherein Brunswick would promote the use of Pathé records and not sell any of its own under the Brunswick label within the U.S. The corporation then went into alliance with the Pathé Frères Phonograph Co.

As a result, the company started producing gramophones, and by August 1916 it had produced around 16,000 machines for delivery. Bessinger, recalled that by 1913 the company had been manufacturing pianos when it experienced a slump due to the recent uptick in world sales of phonographs. In 1925, the President of the company, B.E. Over the years, it expanded into many other products including bowling balls, pins, toilet seats, automobile tires, and finally phonographs. Collender Company which had patented billiard cushions. In 1879 it merged with a competing company, H. In 1874, it merged with Great Western Billiard Manufactory, owned by Julian Balke, hence the first two parts of the eventual name. Brunswick Manufacturing Company was originally created for the purposes of manufacturing carriages, its owner soon realized that billiards tables were largely manufactured in the United Kingdom and exported to the U.S. was both a Midwestern company (it was founded in 1845 in Cincinnati, Ohio by John Moses Brunswick, who was born in Switzerland) 4 and that its business practices were governed by pragmatism, both before and after the inception of its gramophone business.Īlthough J. 2 3 That being said, this author nonetheless maintains that, based on the evidence, the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. It has been scientifically determined that even so-called “positive” stereotypes are harmful. It is important for the listener of the music and the reader of this effort not just to sense the exceptionality of the musical expression, but also know the reasons. However, beyond any subtlety, there lies a world of musical sound that was completely disparate from what had immediately preceded the years 1920 to 1925 and would prove equally different from that which appeared after those years.

1 The bands herein examined all bear certain musical similarities. While any article about music should have the music as its primary focus, the attempt herein is, in addition, to provide a background and cultural context to a group of exceptional dance bands from the early 1920s.

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