[78-L] Wax!

[Royal Pemberton]

Didn't I read somewhere that UK Decca cut their earliest LP masters on wax?

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 6:15 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> Michael Biel wrote:
> > Kristjan Saag wrote:
> >> A newsreel from 1949 about production of shellac records in Germany.
> >>
> http://www.teledb.com/4/wdsMb1pwJEw/0/0/-herstellung-einer-schellackplatte.html
> >> Made from wax masters. I've heard of late use of wax masters in Britain
> and
> >> Sweden as well. Was there any particular reason to continue with wax
> almost
> >> 20 years after the introduction of acetates?
> >> Kristjan
> >
> > Wax was easier to cut than LACQUERS, and the styli used to cut lacquers
> > required burnishing facets (invented by Isabel Capps) and heated styli
> > for best results.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> Some folks just don't like to change to new-fangled inventions. The CBC
> Archives was still cutting lacquers for its "preserve forever" copies as
> late
> as 1967. Microgroove yet.
>
> dl
>
>
>
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