[78-L] Presto cutter

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

The Presto that Philips used (only for 78's) was of the "portable" 
variety. I don't have a picture at hand.

BC
Le 16 mai 09, à 21:26, Michael Biel a écrit :

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>
> From: Bertrand CHAUMELLE <chaumelle at orange.fr>
>
>> Oh, I see, I forgot about transcriptions, thanks, Royal.
>> In Paris, Philips used Presto cutters around 1954 for their sessions
>> (at the same time, they used a tape recorder for the 45/33 
>> pressings!).
>> But they recorded on very thick discs, do you think it was a radically
>> different Presto model ?
>
> The 6 series was a "portable" machine -- portable in that it had 
> handles
> on it!!  It is more likely that Philips used the 8 series lathes which
> were studio machines that weighed hundreds of pounds.  There now are
> many web sites that illustrate some very good collections and even some
> of the old literature.  None of that info was around when I did my
> research in the 70s, but I found found the son of one of the founders,
> and he had a very good memory and even better scrapbooks of every piece
> of literature Presto ever published.  Of course I am not near my
> microfilms of his data right now.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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