[78-L] UNIQUE BIX BEIDERBECKE 1927 OKEH METAL MOTHER!

[Michael Biel]

Georg Brock Nannestad could probably tell us for sure, but I think that
the acoustical head that EMI has is a Sooy Bros head.  And since there
are still many thousands of metal parts from before and after that date
on many of the different Columbia related companies, we probably could
get the info from people who have used them such as Seth Winner and Doug
Pomaroy.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

-------- Original Message --------

From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>


On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 02:02 -0700, Michael Biel wrote:
> If it is relatively
> thin it could have been trimmed, or it could be that this is earlier
> than OKeh switching over to info on the outside after the takeover.

That's always possible, but the circled W next to the catalog number
leads me to believe that it would have been cut on WE equipment, which
to me would signify standard ARC processing. Too bad nobody thought to
document any of this back in the day. (Then again, we'll never see a
Sooy acoustic recording head, either.)

I guess what I'm wondering in the back of my mind is whether this is a
production mother from the era, or whether it's a later mother from the
stash of whichever CBS Records executive it was who had a bunch of stuff
made for himself in the 1960s, all of which was trimmed and thus not
more than one could be removed from its sleeve at the same time.

Michael Shoshani

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