Saverio Leonetti

Also apear as S.Leonetti on labels artwork Registered variants are "Fábrica De Discos Saverio Leonetti" or "Leonetti & Cia." Second Brazilian record factory, funded by Saverio Leonetti. Bought as a rural house in 1911, it was reconverted in 1913 into a lacquer cutting factory for Leonetti's Casa A Electrica store and gradually expanded until becoming a full record factory in August 1914. In total, the company pressed records for Leonetti's Disco Gaucho and Disco Apollo, Casa Amendola & Cia.'s Atlanta (3) & Casa Electra's Tele-Phone, Argentinean Disco Era & Disco Artigas and Paulistan Casa Edison, São Paulo's Disco Phœnix By 1920 the factory is credited on releases as Fábrica Phonographica União By 1924 the factory was abandoned and it's equipment moved to Buenos Aires, where Leonetti was opening a factory called Trouvé, Leonetti & Compania in partnership with Alfredo Amendola's Casa Electra. The ruins of the original building still exist.