[78-L] Wax!

[David Lennick]

Norman Field, who left this forum about 3 years ago and keeps forgetting to 
come back, tells of an early LP session for a British jazz label where they 
didn't even have TAPE yet, so it was direct to disc.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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