[78-L] Matrix numbers [Victor, anyway]

[Mike Harkin]

Classical Victors from the various branches of HMV do have those mxx on the
wax.  Don't remember if they have Victor's mxx also, either in the wax or
printed on the label....  
FWIW

Mike in Plovdiv


--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Matrix numbers (was: Vaughn Meader and Sam Goody)
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 9:10 PM
> >
> > Second, it often appears on the label...usually in
> parentheses.
> > or otherwise made "less important" than the
> record's "catalogue
> > number!" US Victor records usually do NOT show
> their matrix
> > number!
> >
> > ...stevenc
> You are right -- we have been very confusing here to
> newbies since we 
> have been talking about LPs in this thread, not 78s.  The
> earliest 
> Victor 78s do have their matrix numbers before around 1905
> or so, and 
> then again in 1928 for some unknown reason.  Other than
> that, until the 
> post-war years, the engraved numbers are the record
> numbers.  The take 
> numbers were usually at the 9 o'clock position until
> the tape mastering 
> years, and then the dash S numbers took over, usually
> indicating a tape 
> transfer number. 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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