[78-L] Nice article on George Avakian in today's WSJ

[I. Cubillo]

Many were not dubbed... they simply fitted the pressing into a standard 78,
so the grooved area left a tight blank area around the edge. Many spanish
Odeons and Parlophons were pressed thus. The first groove sometimes is only
2mm away from the edge.


Iñigo Cubillo
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Nice article on George Avakian in today's WSJ


> Interesting coincidence.  I had just mentioned him yesterday on the
> ARSCList in relation to his Columbia reissues as to whether they used
> original master pressings.  Steve Barr had contended that since many
> 1920s Columbia and OKehs were 10-1/4-inches in diameter, they had to be
> dubbed to reduce the size.  I reminded everyone that those "oversize"
> pressings were the ones that were actually 10.0-inches and that
> "regular" sized 78s were actually 9-7/8-inches.  I brought up Avakian
> because he might be able to tell us about the use of original masters in
> those sets, because some started out with master pressings and later
> copies were sometimes dubs.  Uncle Wilski, got George's email address?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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> From: Steve Ramm <steveramm78l at hotmail.com>
> > http://tinyurl.com/qbuv24
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