Featured, I presume, are members of the Victor Orchestra doing their thing. But if you look at the far right, next to and behind the tall chair upon which the cellist is sitting, you can see a tuba player. Here's a close-up of that portion of the photo:
Compare that with the photo below, which shows Conrad in a Victor poster that was produced in 1918 for use in schools. It appears to be the exact type of chair that we see being used in the studio. And is it just me, or does that look like the same shoes in the photos as well?!
That photograph is of the Victor Salon Orchestra under Rosario Bourdon in one of Victor's last acoustical sessions at Camden (in the factory's Auditorium Building) probably from early 1925. The tubist here is probably George Frey; there's a photo of an early electric session at Victor in the same room with the same group and the tubist is a bit more visible there.
ReplyDeleteI should amend my previous comment; this is a wholly staged photograph Victor published in late 1925 to show the difference between acoustic recording orchestral positioning and electrical orchestral positioning. There is nothing in the booth behind conductor Rosario Bourdon, and in fact positioning the tuba _behind_ the rest of the orchestra in an acoustical session would be pointless as he wouldn't register at all.
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