[78-L] acoustic recording of multi-tracks

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Michael Shoshani wrote:

My uneducated guess is that the cutting stylus would have obliterated
the first take while plowing through the soft wax groove doing the
second take.  Even playing a wax master with a reproducing head was a
damage risk; "playing" it with a recording head (which was designed to
channel sound energy into the stylus, rather than receive it from the
stylus) would probably have been destructive.

MS

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I was, of course, speculating in jest.  I'm sure a second pass of a cutting stylus would do serious damage to the first recording.

db