[78-L] Orthophonic as a trademark

[Rodger Holtin]

>those with particularly good eyes could see the expression "True in sound" in microscopic writing under the word "Orthophonic".

OK, I've looked at a fair number of Orthophonic labels with magnifying glasses and never saw this.  Where have you seen it?

BTW, according the my 1958 Webster unabridged, "ortho" is Middle English for "correct" and "phonic" is Greek for "sound" therefore it was intended to mean Correct Sound.  Compared to the acoustic records they replaced, and what we can harvest from them using today's equipment, that is exactly what they were.

Rodger



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--- On Sat, 10/4/08, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [78-L] Orthophonic as a trademark
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 9:15 PM

Just looking at Google - admittedly not a great authoritative resource, it does
not appear that Victor's term, "Orthophonic Recording" was
copyrighted or trademarked.
Ditto for Columbia's "Viva Tonal" ?
Can anybody confirm/refute that?  Either way, any ideas why?


Rodger



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