magiccarpetride wrote: > Why music industry chose to go with a different model, whereby they > would mass produce and distribute copies of the recorded performance, is > a curious fact that remains kind of difficult to explain.
Actually, it is quite easy to explain. The recorded music industry came directly from the music publishing industry. It wasn't until the 1940s that records started outselling sheet music. It's impossible to use the movie model you describe to monetize sheet music. People buy sheet music so they can play the song on their own instrument in their home. Sheet music sales to the public was a big deal that dated back to 1880, when industry started the mass production of upright pianos for the home market. The song "After The Ball" by Charles Harris sold around 2 million copies in 1892 and millions more in the years after. (Piano rolls for player pianos was also a big seller,) Before TV, only the rich could afford a movie projector for their home, so the idea of mass distribution of films was an impossibility in the old days. However, record players were quite affordable for the middle class, as were records. The transition of the mass market from sheet music to records was quite natural, plus radio broadcasting had already established the public's expectation that music in their home was a given, whether by broadcast or record. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95541 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
