Arto Records was a short lived record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 based in the United States of America

United States

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, operating from 1920

1920 in music

-Events:*January 19 - The Salzburg Festival is revived.*December 4 - Première of the opera Die tote Stadt by 23-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold...

 to 1923

1923 in music

-Events:*November 11 - Premiere of John Foulds's World Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It is repeated on that date each year until 1926....

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Arto Records was owned by the Arto Company of Orange, New Jersey

Orange, New Jersey

The City of Orange is a city and township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 30,134...

 which in turn was owned by the Standard Music Roll Company, a business which made player piano

Player piano

A player piano is a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music perforated paper, or in rare instances, metallic rolls. The rise of the player piano grew with the rise of the mass-produced piano for the home in...

 rolls. They went into the gramophone record

Gramophone record

A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 business in summer of 1920. Their recording studio

Recording studio

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 was located in Manhattan

Manhattan

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, New York City

New York City

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Arto issued a Black Label series of popular music, numbered 9xxx, including such artists as the California Ramblers, Lucille Hegamin

Lucille Hegamin

Lucille Nelson Hegamin was an American singer and entertainer, and a pioneer African American blues recording artist.-Life and career:...

, the Original Memphis Five and Vernon Dalhart

Vernon Dalhart

Vernon Dalhart , born Marion Try Slaughter, was a popular American singer and songwriter of the early decades of the 20th century. He is a major influence in the field of country music.-Early life:...

. The label also issued a Red Label series of classical and ethnic music, numbered 3xxxx, that included the Peerless Quartet

Peerless Quartet

The Peerless Quartet, , was a vocal group from the acoustic era . It was organised in 1904 as the Columbia Quartet. It remained active until 1928 and had many changes of personnel during that time, the one constant being Henry Burr...

 and Fred Van Eps

Fred Van Eps

Fred Van Eps was a noted banjoist and banjo maker. The "Van Eps Recording Banjo" was a well-known model until 1930.-Biography:...

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Arto Records pressed masters for other record companies, including Nordskog Records

Nordskog Records

Nordskog Records was a small record label based in California in the early 1920s that produced some interesting historic recordings.Nordskog Records was founded by Andrae Nordskog of Santa Monica, California in 1922. The label's recording studio and factory were located in Los Angeles, California...

 and Arto's sister company Bell Records

Bell Records (1920s)

The United States based Bell Records record label started issuing records in about 1920. The label's parent company was the Standard Music Roll Company of Orange, New Jersey, which was also the parent of Arto Records...

. The label also licensed masters from other companies, particularly for release on the Red Label series.