[78-L] Advent of Electrical Recording

[Ron L'Herault]

I imagine some of the acoustical components could have been adapted to the
electrical process.  If they had an electrically powered cutting lathe, all
one would need to do would be to put on the electrical cutting head in place
of the acoustic one, right?

Ron L

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Duncan
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 1:57 PM
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Many of the larger companies got going with electrical recording really
quickly in the first half of 1925 like Victor in the USA and HMV in the UK,
for example. They re-recorded various works, especially classical, with
electrical equipment and usually the acoustic equivalent records were
removed from the catalogue soon after although shops would have still
stocked the earlier discs in many cases.

Several of the cheaper labels (especially in the UK) continued to issue
acoustic items.  One good example of this is IMPERIAL.  Owned by Vocalion
and later Crystallate they issued a lot of european classical music and US
jazz and dance band items that were recorded electrically but many of their
own recordings were acoustic into late 1927/early 1928 as far as I am aware.

I don't know about what happened to the equipment ...maybe some of it ended
up in schools, sold off for spare parts or in music stores that made
personal records??

I am not sure about the last acoustic records but I am sure someone on here
could shed more light on this as well as more info on US labels and studios
as although I collect US records from pre WWII, my knowledge of matrix
series, studios, adverts etc and technical stuff is mainly British based.

Matthew Duncan
England.


 



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From: "fnarf at comcast.net" <fnarf at comcast.net>
To: 78-L <78-L at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Fri, 22 January, 2010 18:34:36
Subject: [78-L] Advent of Electrical Recording

I have a dumb question that's been bugging me for a while now. Everyone
knows that electrical recording arrived in 1925. How sudden was the change?
Did everybody change at once? Did some labels continue to record
acoustically for some time afterwards? What happened to all the acoustical
gear -- did they just throw it out, or did they pass it on to some other
use, perhaps a cheaper auxiliary studio, or a budget label or something?
What's the last known acoustical recording?


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