[78-L] 78 Album Sets outside the US & Canada

[goldenbough at arcor.de]

Does a set of cylinders qualify as an album? 


One of the most important European albums is  'Musik des Orients', published in Berlin by 
ethnomusicologist Erich von Hornbostel.  It contains 9  10-inch records and 3  10 3/4 inch 
discs, some on Parlophon, others on Odeon. The album covers early exotic music recordings
from North Africa to Japan (ca. 1908-1928). 

The set was originally published in May 1931 by Carl Lindström AG, and was subsequently 
re-issued on 10 inch Parlophones in the UK and on Decca in the USA.  The accompanying 
24 page large booklet with many photos makes this set historically valuable. 

However, Erich von Hornbostel and the Phonogrammarchiv in Berlin had published and sold 
a similar set about two decades before. It was a large 'multi-storey' crate containing about 
200 cylinders with early ethnographic music recordings from Europe, Africa and Asia (I do 
not know if any American recordings were included). 

Only about 5 or 6 of these sets may have survived. The wooden crate is of natural wood color. 
As it is not painted in white, I do not know if the crate qualifies as an 'album'. ;=) 

Benno Häupl



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