[78-L] Orthophonic as a trademark

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

"Ortho" is Greek for 'straight'.

For instance an orthodontist is someone who re-aligns teeth.

"Phoné" is Greek for 'voice'.

BC
Le 6 oct. 08, à 02:03, Rodger Holtin a écrit :

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>> those with particularly good eyes could see the expression "True in 
>> sound" in microscopic writing under the word "Orthophonic".
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> OK, I've looked at a fair number of Orthophonic labels with magnifying 
> glasses and never saw this.  Where have you seen it?
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> 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.
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> Rodger
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> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
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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
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> 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?
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> Rodger
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> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
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