[78-L] From Frosty to Toscanini

[Royal Pemberton]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

>
> As for Toscanini, we know he hated stopping and starting and his 1936 New
> York
> Philharmonic recordings were all made by cutting abruptly from one lathe to
> the
> next..<snip> If I'm not mistaken, the
> second version of side 1 of the Beethoven 7th takes up much less disc
> surface.
> Side 1 in the original runs into the label space.
>
> dl
>
> So on the first edition, did they make a special label, small than the
standard c. 3" label, just for side 1 (imagining a Victor scroll label
shrunken to almost Little Wonder dimensions), or did they add the eccentric
stop groove just after the end of what music's on the side, and allow some
or all of the eccentric groove to run under the label?