 360 performances of Arabic music by the visiting groups were recorded, and most of these recordings survive in the Phonotèque of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.162 of these records were released by the HMV company, and a collection of those records was given to the Guimet Museum in Paris by King Fuad I.In addition, proposals for the modernization and standardization of Arabic music were presented, including a proposal to standardize the Arabic tuning system to 24 equal steps per octave (quarter tones), substituting an equal-tempered system for the earlier non-tempered system.