[78-L] RCA-AFB Talking Books

[martha]

AFB has some RCA info here: 
http://www.afb.org/ead.asp?EADID=19&nEADSeriesID=13&nEADSubSeriesID=41

or

http://tinyurl.com/ykvuao8





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>
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> The question came up a few weeks ago about RCA Victor recording Program
>> Transcription talking books   I have dug up the discs I have which were
>> produced for the American Foundation for the Blind and they have an AFB
>> prefix on the matrix numbers as well as on the record number.  They are
>> 12-inch black vinyl.   The grooving is finer than the Program
>> Transcription grooving, and the labels state "Licensed Under Dyer
>> Patents".  Frank L. Dyer was one of the biographers of Edison (Dyer and
>> Martin) and took out a patent on fine groove recording.  I have some
>> notations in my dissertation where he threatened several transcription
>> companies who were discussing coming out with fine groove recordings.  I
>> do not have any info on the relationship between the AFB, LC, Dyer, and
>> RCA, but the discs are here.  We've all heard how Sarnoff  HATED to have
>> to license patents from someone else!
>>