[78-L] V-Disc - Vinyls/Shellacs.

[David Lennick]

Boy, after all these years you'd think I know how to spell MelOTone (Your 
Portrait in Sound).

David Lennick wrote:
> And Stinson. And probably for Mel-O-Tune Studios, purveyors of the wonderful 
> Florence Foster Jenkins masterpieces. The edge of a Clark pressing is the same 
> whether it's shellac or Formvar.
> 
> dl
> 
> davdieh at aol.com wrote:
>> Clark Phonograph Co. was located in Newark, New Jersey. George Clark pressed for a lot of indie labels: Oberstein's Elite and Hit;
>> early Capitol; and Asch. It was the parent of Manor.
>> -David Diehl
>>
>> Bertrand CHAUMELLE chaumelle at orange.fr:
>> Formvar was used for V-Discs after shellac and before vinyl; that's 
>> what Sears explained in his first volume, as I recall.
>>
>> BC
>> Le 31 juil. 09, à 04:40, David Weiner a écrit :
>>
>>> David Weiner wrote:
>>>> Â  There are also numerous V-discs pressed on a
>>>> styrene-type of vinyl, I think done by World.
>>>>
>>> I think I know the ones you mean..not styrene, but a very hard plastic.
>>> These
>>> were done by Clark Phonograph Co. Look for the indented ring a quarter 
>>> inch
>>> inside the label.
>>>
>>> dl
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>>>
>>> That's them! Who was Clark and who else did they press for?  I think 
>>> they
>>> were pressed on a vinyl-esque compound called Formvar.
>>>
>>> Dave
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