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The Instruments of the Orchestra Handbook: A booklet descriptive of the instruments of the Orchestra. Accompanies the Instruments of the Orchestra Charts

Published by the 
Educational Department of the 
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden NJ USA
1922

Instruments of the Orchestra by Sight, Sound and Story: A Description of the Instruments and Their Uses by Mr Harold D Smith
Illustrated by Victor Records on which they may be heard

Instruments are arranged in the following sections, with a full page b/w photo at the start of each section.
Range, sound and playing of each instrument are explained, demonstration records mentioned at the end of each instrument section

- Strings (incl, Harp)
- Woodwind
- Brass
- Percussion (xylophone, marimba, bells, side drum, chimes, tympani, celesta)

- Four Special Victor Records: Instruments of the Orchetra Part 1-4
- Index of Instruments
- Index of Records
11x6" staple bound booklet 24 pages, brown ink printed on tan paper


CONDITION: VERY GOOD

Booklet in very clean condition: Interior clean, no markings, odor or animal hairs. Binding and covers sound. small  bend top edge of  front cover, covers lightly smudged ABOUT US: 15 years of experience in online selling with high customer satisfaction . BUY WITH CONFIDENCE - If you don't like the item, just return it in the way you received it and we will gladly return the purchase price.



Columbia Record Club was formed in 1955 by CBS/Columbia Records as an experiment to market music directly by mail,[4] spurring sales to rural consumers and heading off competition from mail-order companies from outside the record industry.[5] New members to the club were enticed with a free record just for joining.[4] To appease brick-and-mortar retailers, titles in the club's catalog were not made available until six months after retail release (later reduced to three months), and retailers that helped recruit members got a 20% commission. By the end of that year, the club had 125,175 members who had purchased 700,000 records[4] ($1.174 million net). The operation grew so quickly that, in 1956, it was moved from New York City to a new home base: a distribution center in Terre Haute, Indiana, a railway-accessible city where Columbia had recently opened a record pressing facility.[4] Within a year, the club had 687,652 members and had sold 7 million records[4] ($14.888 million net) and, by 1963, it commanded 10% of the recorded music retail market. 

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