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Please note: This is a discographical catalog -
items are NOT available for sale from us
Achtung: Dies ist eine
Discographie - die Platten stehen NICHT zum Verkauf
We herewith offer a label listing of the German Acme company. The records are exceedingly rare, some have never been found. If you can add, please get in touch. We would be pleased to know if any of the missing discs can be located.
The original listing was compiled by Jan Grundmann (Hamburg), who
published it with a short company history in Fox auf 78, Nr.20, Sommer 2001, pp.16-17.
C.M. [Curt Max] Roehr at Berlin founded a music publishing business in
1888, cultivating American dance music including Ragtime and Cake Walk.
After WWI he renewed his US contacts. To coincide with his 25th
business anniversary he started a record company, Brandenburgische
Sprechmaschinen AG. From July 1923 the company released discs on the
Acme label, drawing on recent masters recorded by Emerson and Plaza in
the US, and custom pressed by Artiphon, also
in Berlin. In January 1924 Roehr began to record locally in Berlin in a
matrix
series prefixed "R" (for Roehr). Apart from titles recorded by Roehr's
son-in-law,
Austin Egen, all issues used fancy pseudonyms. In the summer of 1925
the
company was sold to Artiphon, by 1926 the Acme label was discontinued.
Among those who have provided information are the following: Han
Enderman (Netherlands), Björn
Englund (Stockholm), Klaus Krüger (Dietramszell), Horst H. Lange (Berlin),
Michael Ladwig (Mücke), Katja
Pfeifer (Köln), Enrico Pigorsch (Dresden), Thomas
Schleussner-Schwarz (Berlin), Paul Sonntag (Bonn), Wilhelm Tartler
(München).
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Acme Record 25cm diameter
discs.
There is a great variety of couplings. No catalog has turned up as yet,
but
a sleeve lists catalog numbers in the 2013-2065 range
"Amateur Jazzband", ca late 1925: Austin Egen (piano), Graf Bethusy
(drums), Herr Roehr (saxophone), Claire Rommer (clarinet), Herr
Hartmann (saxophone), Herr Lichtenstein (banjo)
If you have additions or corrections: Please contact us by e-mail: rainer-lotz@gmx.de
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