[78-L] Advent of Electrical Recording

[David Lennick]

Columbia's Educational Series discs had bands but no spirals. I think there are 
acoustical Victors that do have them.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> 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
>>>>