[78-L] Advent of Electrical Recording

[Royal Pemberton]

I have an Okeh with some German music (some kind of yodeling group) that is
like this, with a spiral roughly midway through each song.  I don't know
when it was recorded.

I was thinking of those where the spirals separated different songs or
content on the same side of a record.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 9:07 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> There are discs from around 1912 that have a spiral and contain only one
> selection. This was done to identify pirate pressings. Examples I know of
> are
> by Billy Williams on labels like Jumbo, reissued on north American
> Columbia.
>
> dl
>
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
> > I have a feeling that early on, that was often done, the acoustic horn
> and
> > sound box apparatus removed from the lathe, replaced with the electrical
> > cutting head, as many early Victor electricals look like they were done
> on
> > the same machines (even down to playing at about the same speed.
> >
> > On a slight tangent, I wonder what the first record is, to have a spiral
> or
> > spirals between the selections on it?  I'm guessing it's a Victor from
> the
> > late teens or early 1920s, probably one of the records with several short
> > songs on each side, made for children....
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Ron L'Herault <lherault at bu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> 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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