[78-L] cleaning and digitizing 78s Taiwan?

[David Lennick]

No reason there couldn't have been a local recording concern, even if the discs 
were pressed elsewhere, and Formosa was on "our" side. For that matter, China 
was still producing laminated 78s in the late sixties.

dl

Bob Rice wrote:
>   Interesting Post, as I spent some time in Taiwan, 40 plus YEARS ago. 
> Friends DID have a wind up player, I don't THINK it was a Victrola, but 
> MAYBE victrolas were common in Taiwan? Or Japanese equilivents. as Taiwan 
> was part of the Japanese Empire, starting in 1895?
> 
>     So, was thinking? WAS there a record industry in Taiwan , YEARS ago? 
> Locally made 78's? I'm glad to see Yin Feng doing R and D into the 
> subject.I'm sure there were alot of Japanese offerings back then, but a 
> Formosa, as it was called back then, industry, would be of interest?MUST 
> have enough Taiwanese tunes to support a record  industry?
> 
>     Seeya
> 
>     Bob
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "I. Cubillo" <i.cubillo at telefonica.net>
> To: ".78L" <78-l at 78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] cleaning and digitizing 78s
> 
> 
> What I recommend to you is to search through Google. There are myriads of
> websites devoted to these subjects. Try to attach to official websites, like
> the ones sustained by national archives, The Library Of Congress (US), The
> BBC, British Sound Research Institute (into the British Library) and the
> like. You'll find lots of information about the matter.
> 
> You'd better try first websites devoted to recordings, like IASA
> (International Association for Sound Archives), IARSC (International
> Association for Recorded Sound Collections) and the like.
> 
> Sure you'll have lots of documents on the subject to study thoroughly!
> 
> Iñigo Cubillo
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ying-fen Wang" <nanguanl at ntu.edu.tw>
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:31 AM
> Subject: [78-L] cleaning and digitizing 78s
> 
> 
>> Dear list,
>>
>> As a new subscriber to the list, I am writing to seek your advice on
>> cleaning and digitizing 78s.
>>
>> I am a faculty member at National Taiwan University. We just purchased
> about
>> 550 78s of Taiwan music and some records recorded in Amoy.
>>
>> We are now looking for ways to clean and digitize these records. The goal
> is
>> to set up a digital archive of these records (and hopefully with more to
>> come).
>>
>> I wonder if there has been discussion on this on this list. I tried to
>> search for this on the list's archive. But there are too many of them, and
> I
>> don't have time to go through each of them.
>>
>> Any help and advice would be most appreciated.
>>
>> One thing I would add is that the condition of the records collected in
>> Taiwan are usually rather bad.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ying-fen Wang
>>
>> --
>>