

The gramophone records by Homokord
(after 1923 some labels say also Homocord)
were manufactured by German company Homophon
Company GmbH established in 1905. The company headquarters was
located at Alexandrienstrasse in the part of city of Berlin known
as Kreuzberg. .... It is said that a big English company The Gramophon
Company Ltd had disliked the Homophon label very soon because
of too close similarities with their own label Zonophone. Consequently,
Homophon has been forced by the court to change the name and also
the graphical label on its own recordings. Recordings of this
company were then published with changed label Homokord. It still
depicts a harp player, but without any phrase. For the short period
of time the red labels Rubin and the green labels Homophon had
been used as well....... Since 1906 Homophon has also a branch
office in London. This office published records in Great Britain
till 1914 using Homophon Record, Homophon Company GmbH and Homophone
Record labels. The branch company British Homophone was publishing
the English records in London between 1913-15 using the label
Homochord. After WWI this English label survived until
1934 in various color variations through the gramophone
companies Vocalion, Pathe and GC. Around 1926 this branch company
pressed for a short period of time also record labeled Homo Baby
using the matrixes of GC company. ....
In 1933 the C.Lindstron AG corporation discontinued the Homocord
label and the records from its matrixes has been used for corporations
own labels Odeon and Parlophon. After 1933 some Homocord records
were used for corporations another label (Quelle)
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