The company paid Tamagno a cash advance of 2000 pounds sterling to make his first lot of ``78s''. He also received royalties from the company for every individually numbered, custom-labelled pressing that sold. Roland Gelatt's revised edition of The Fabulous Phonograph (Collier Books, New York, 1977, p.*119) asserts that Tamagno's recording contract, signed in December 1902, was the first to embody ``the royalty principle''. Gelatt states that Tamagno approved 19 recordings from his Ospedaletti session for release to the public.
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