New Book Release, October 2026

The Gramophone Company’s Recordings
1898 to 1934

A guide to the Matrix Serials used by the Recording Experts of the Company

Author:  Michael Kinnear
(Published Posthumously)
ISBN: 978-0-6456719-4-0

USD $45.00 plus International Postage, USD $35.00

The matrix serial Suffix and Prefix identifying letters assigned to the Recording Experts from 1898 to 1934 used by The Gramophone Company Ltd.

(Including an addition of matrix serials from 1934 to 1939).

With a corporate history and  early development of the Gramophone Company.  The unlettered and zinc process recording taken in London from 1898 for  E. Berliner’s Gramophone.  The Oriental Numerical Catalogue Coding System. The Far East, Second, Third and Fourth Far East recording tours, 1903 to 1907.

CONTENTS
1.  Explanation – Matrix Numbers
2.  The Gramophone Company’s Beginnings  
3.  The Gramophone Company, Limited –  Corporate History
4.  Recording Experts Biographical Data       
5.  The Factories
CODES
1.  The Gramophone Company Matrix Serial Codes 1898-1908
        The “E Berliner’s Gramophone” 7-inch unlettered series zinc process                               recordings taken in London from 1898.
         The “E. Berliner’s Gramophone” Oriental Catalogue 7-inch zinc process                           recordings.
         The Gramophone and Typewriter, Ltd., Oriental Numerical Catalogue                               Coding System.
         The Far East, Second, Third and Fourth Far East recording tours of 1903 to                     1907.
2.  Zon-o-phone Codes     
3.  The Gramophone Company Ltd.,  1908 – 1920 Codes
4.  The Gramophone Company, Ltd., 1921 – 1930 Codes     
5.  The Gramophone Company, Ltd., 1931 – 1934 Codes, 0A/2A Codes
         HMV (▲) Portable Machines
         Western Electric () Portable Machine
6.  The Gramophone Company, Ltd., 1931 – 1934 Codes, Calcutta
7.  The Gramophone Company, Ltd., 1931 – 1934 Codes, Hindusthan                                    Musical Products & Varieties Syndicate, Ltd., Calcutta
8.  The Gramophone Company, Ltd., 1934 – 1939 Codes, The Gramophone                        Company, Ltd., Calcutta / Columbia Graphophone Co., Ltd., Calcutta
          Carl Lindström, Aktien-Gesellschaft
           Hanseatic Trading Company, Bombay / C.E. Woods-Scawen, Madras
SUPPLEMENTS
1.  Zonophone Supplement:- W.C.Gaisberg, W.S.Darby, F.Hampe,
         F.W.Gaisberg, M.Hampe, Cleveland E. Walcutt, C.A.Scheuplein
2.  Theodor Heinrich Max Hampe  – History
3.  Arthur Spottiswoode Clark – History

Index and 22 illustrations in the text.

PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

The Gramophone Company’s Recordings, 1898 to 1934 – Front piece

The Gramophone Company’s Recordings, 1898 to 1934 – Contents

The Gramophone Company’s Recordings, 1898 to 1934 – Contents ix

The Gramophone Company’s Recordings, 1898 to 1934 – Contents x

The Gramophone Company Ltd., 1931 – 1934 Codes

The Gramophone Company Ltd., 1931 – 1934 Codes

George Walter Dillnutt, Suffix: n/ o/ p   p.94-95

Max Hampe Suffix: q/ r/ s p.102-103

George Walter Dillnutt, Suffix: aj/ ak/ al p.128-129

Head Office – Hayes, Prefix: Ho

Arthur James Twine, Prefix: BX/ CX/ Ax/ Dx/ Kx p.178-179

James Edward George, Sudhangshu Kumar Sen [S.K. Sen], Max Birkhahn, Prefix: 0E/ 2E/ 0EB/ 8E, p.182-183

Sudhangshu Kumar Sen [S.K. Sen], Prefix: 0MF/ 2MF p.196-197