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Discography

Label / Number	Artist	Title
Baidaphon 86101	Pincas, Albert	Leha Ellie
Baidaphon 86102	Pincas, Albert	Adonaj schamati
Baidaphon 86103	Pincas, Albert	Jachen al Teradam
Baidaphon 86104	Pincas, Albert	Mihtam ledavid
Baidaphon 86126	Pincas, Albert	Elohaj al tedineni
Baidaphon 86127	Pincas, Albert	Ahot ketana
Baidaphon 86128	Pincas, Albert	Adonaj bekol schofar
Baidaphon 86129	Pincas, Albert	Rahum vehanun

History

Baidaphon was founded by five members of the Baida family of Beirut, who contracted around 1906 for a German to manufacture records. Soon afterwards they opened a small record shop in downtown Beirut. The company began to record local talent, aided by the European engineers who made regular recording trips to the area. "It was probably only a matter of months before the company recorded in Egypt and the rest of the Middle East."

The company set up a branch in Cairo 1914 and began marketing a wide variety of Arabic music available, including Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian repertory. They also published recordings by the cantor Albert Pincas, detailed in the June, 1928 catalog below.

Sources:

Racy, Ali Jihad, 1976 & 1977

Vernon, Paul, "Cairo Practice", http://bolingo.org/audio/texts/fr141cairo.html
Accessed September 23, 2008