Nikos Dionysopoulos mentions the following on the recordings of the violinist Giorgos Makrygiannis (see insert of the music publication with a CD "Giorgos Makrygiannis or 'Nisyrios'", edited by Nikos Dionysopoulos, Educational and cultural association of Nisyros, Athens 2011):
"Makrygiannis' arrival in America [24.5.1916] coincided with the time when the ever-increasing demand for 'music from the homeland' among the millions of immigrants, combined with the rapid development of the new technology of phonograph records, led the American record labels to produce and release thousands of 78 rpm records with recordings of national music from the local music tradition of various nationalities flocking to the US. Regarding the Greek repertoire, the huge success of the 34 songs recorded (in 1916-1917) by Mrs. Koula (Antonopoulou) for Columbia immediately led the other labels to release Greek songs. At the same time, they developed a network in order to find important artists who would have an impact on the respective audience. At that time, the record label Victor (a competitor of Columbia) found G. Makrygiannis, who became one of the first Greek musicians to record, as a solo violinist, instrumental songs in America. [...]
The tunes and songs that Nisyrios chose to record reflect the intention to broadly serve the main axes of the Greek repertoire of the time (that is, music from the islands, from the mainland, popular and light songs), addressing at the same time the different local traditions of Greek immigrants which coexisted in that 'foreign land'. Of course, he emphasized on music from the islands and the coasts of Asia Minor, that is, from regions that he knew well, music-wise. It should be noted that this variety of different musical idioms was also the usual practice in the entertainment venues of immigrants, where the greater or lesser osmosis of musicians and audience created a new reality."