The German Beka company was one of the first to conduct international
recording expeditions. A numerical listing of the famous recording trip to
the Orient is now online at
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Compiled by Christian Zwarg as part of the Lindström company research
project. the discography lists a large proportion of the more than 1500
recordings made in Turkey, Egypt, India, Burma, Singapore, Dutch East
Indies, Japan and China in 1905-6. The listings for Japan are quiet
incomplete, so we would welcome contacts with collectors and archives owning
early Japanese Beka records and / or catalogues.
A contemporary account of the trip, originally published in Phonographische
Zeitschrift, can be found online at
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Seek under "Heinrich Bumb"
A sampling of these recordings, from the collection of the Berlin
Phonogramm-Archiv. can be found at
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Seek "Phonogrammarchiv" + "Beka"
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