Crescent Talking Machine Co.

Crescent Talking Machine Co. A New York firm, established in 1914 to make discs and players. The Crescent Sales Co., Providence, Rhode Island, was distributing agent. The discs, eight-inch and 10 1/2 inch vertical cut, were mainly taken from Pathé masters, but—apparently through a misunderstanding—were not playable on the Crescent phonographs, which were designed to play lateral-cut records. This was one factor (the other was probably a lack of novel material) that contributed to the quick…