[78-L] Wax!

[David Lennick]

That's what I'm thinking as well.

dl

Matthew Duncan wrote:
> Sounds like the Tempo label but not 100% sure...
> 
> --- On Sat, 28/11/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Wax!
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, 28 November, 2009, 0:44
> 
> 
> 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
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