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A name from the early days of recorded sound, this orchestra appears in rare Edison laboratory sessions preserved as historical audio. The surviving records offer a small but vivid glimpse of studio music-making in the 1920s.
Losey's Orchestra is listed by Project Gutenberg as the credited creator of several surviving recordings, including 2nd Record, Plaque No. 1, Plaque No. 2, and Plaque No. 6. Those items are presented as public-domain historical audio rather than conventional books, which is why the name may look unusual in a library catalog.
Project Gutenberg's notes say these performances were recorded at the Edison Laboratory in West Orange, New Jersey, in 1924 and 1925, using an experimental 125-foot recording horn. That places the orchestra in a fascinating moment when engineers and musicians were still testing how music could best be captured for playback.
The available sources identify the ensemble, but they do not clearly confirm a fuller group history or a definitive biography of its members. Even so, the recordings connected to Losey's Orchestra remain valuable as artifacts from the transition period of early sound recording.