[78-L] Metal 78 Stampers

[Bertrand CHAUMELLE]

I can't elaborate. I don't even know if it's just EMI France or the 
whole structure. In other words, bankruptcy.

It was in the air, anyway, wasn't it ?
Did you read the latest book "The Decline and Fall Of EMI" ?

BC

Le 29 oct. 09, à 23:49, Thomas Stern a écrit :

>
> Please elaborate on EMI closing????
> Thanks, Thomas.
>
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> CHAUMELLE
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>
> EMI is closing down in a few days, a French producer just told me
>
> Hold on to your stampers
>
> BC
>
> Le 29 oct. 09, à 20:38, Alexandre Benoit a écrit :
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>> Right before the Pathe pressing plant in Chatou (France) was taken
>> down,
>> several French collectors kept a friendly relationship with a 20 years
>> old,
>> naive  woman who was in charge of the archive. This was in fact a
>> storage
>> hall full of matrices and stampers. This young woman allowed people to
>> take
>> home metal parts over the weekend for copying. 
>>  
>> I was told that some guys took 20 parts with them and brought back 12.
>> This is why metal matrices (with grooves) and stampers are not so
>> uncommon
>> among French collectors. I have several of them, negatives and
>> positives.
>> This Chatou plant pressed for HMV and most other major labels.
>>  
>> For one of these discs I have every production step: from the original
>> lacquer
>> to the pressed record. Both sides.
>> In the end, Pathe did NOT sell the metal parts to scrap metal dealers,
>> but rather 
>> kept the archive. Initially, collectors were thinking they were saving
>> this stuff from
>> destruction.
>>  
>> Alex
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