[78-L] How many records are around?

[Michael Quinn]

Hi Erwin,
 Thanks for the link - Rare is the word allright!!
The zinc Berliner looks to be a test - pity it is of minimal artistic 
interest.  Wasn't Trevor Williams chairman of the Gramophone & 
Typewriter Company?  I see he recorded a commercially issued Berliner 
of  "Farmyard Imitations" in March 1899 which sold sufficiently well to 
require a remake.
My estimate of the number of European Berliners might be out by several 
thousand as Alan Kelly indicates there were somewhat over 4,500 
recordings in the unlettered series from 1899-1900 plus I would need to 
add the 1898 London Berliners and Sinkler Darby's European recordings so 
7000 thousand titles might be closer to the mark for the pre wax master 
period of European recording.
Best Wishes
Mike Quinn

Erwin Kluwer wrote:

>Yep! There is even one for sale:
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>http://www.archeophone.org/rare-records/  First item (and take a look at
>those other rare babies!!)
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>http://www.archeophone.org/rare-records/001.php
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>On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Michael Quinn <mbquinn at powerup.com.au>wrote:
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>>RUSSELL BARNES wrote:
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>>>I'm told that HMV/EMI in Hayes, London, hold eighteen thousand Berliner
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>>recordings.
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>>>RB
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>>Hi Russell,
>>   That estimate seems rather high to me as I don't think the total
>>number of European Berliners would be more than five thousand titles and
>>I am sure EMI does not hold a full collection of Berliner shellacs. I
>>understand some Berliner metals exist in the US but do any British or
>>Continental metals pre 1901 survive?
>> Best Wishes
>>Mike Quinn
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