[78-L] Vinyl Record Day Aug 12 [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Don't hold your breath waiting for them to acknowledge their multitudinous
errors....

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Thu, 7/15/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Vinyl Record Day Aug 12
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 10:25 PM
> 
> Picky, picky, picky.
> 
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> dl
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> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:38:49 -0400
> > From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Subject: [78-L] Vinyl Record Day Aug 12
> > 
> > Oy vey. I just got a newsletter posting about Vinyl
> Record Day being 
> > celebrated on Aug 12 because that is the day Edison
> invented the phonograph.
> > 
> > http://www.musicstack.com/articles/vinyl-record-day-attemptinggain-momentum
> > 
> > Here is the correction I sent. I hope they use it:
> > 
> > "August 12 is NOT the day Edison invented the
> phonograph. That was 
> > November 29, 1877 with the Mary had a little lamb
> recording done on 
> > December 6. Aug 12 was a made-up date when they
> couldn't find the 
> > actual lab drawings in the 1920s. They took a later
> drawing of a 
> > tinfoil machine and Edison wrote "Kreuzi Make this
> Edison Aug 12, 
> > 1877" Since he misspelled his worker's name, someone
> tried correcting 
> > it first to Kreusi, and then finally to the correct
> spelling Kruesi. I 
> > have copies of publications of all four versions,
> blank with no 
> > inscription and all three spellings. When the Nov 29
> lab sheet was 
> > discovered, Kruesi, Charles Batchelor, and Edison had
> all signed it.
> > 
> > In 1927 they did use this fictitious Aug 12 date for a
> celebration and 
> > 50 years later the Edison National Historic Site used
> that date to 
> > celebrate the 50th anniv of that 50th anniv
> celebration. They also had 
> > a small ceremony on Dec 6. 
> > 
> > If you need proof from an official source, contact
> Jerry Fabris, 
> > <Gerald_Fabris at nps.gov>
> Museum Curator,Thomas Edison National Historical 
> > Park, National Park Service, United States Department
> of the Interior, 
> > 211 Main Street, West Orange, New Jersey 07052."
> > 
> > +++++++++++
> > 
> > I noted some other errors of fact in the posting and
> then sent this 
> > second correction:
> > 
> > "You have another set of fictional stories in your
> posting. There were 
> > no vinyl records in the 1920s. Most of them were made
> of a shellac 
> > compound. Vinyl was not used until 1931 when RCA
> Victor issued their 
> > first 33 1/3 Long Playing records. Which leads to the
> next points. Gen. 
> > DAVID Sarnoff (not his son Robert) did not storm out
> of the meeting with 
> > Columbia angry at his engineers, he knew they HAD been
> developing the 45 
> > since 1940 in a project called "Madame X". I have
> photocopies of the 
> > original recording ledger sheets of this project as
> proof. It started 
> > as a 6 1/2-inch 40 RPM disc and by 1942 was a 7-inch
> 45 RPM. I can give 
> > you exact details of the experimental recordings from
> the early 40s. 
> > And your comparison with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates is
> bogus because 
> > there was nothing new or patentable with the Columbia
> LP. RCA Victor 
> > and others had already used 33 1/3, vinyl, and
> microgrooves. Columbia 
> > could not have stopped anyone from duplicating their
> process, and 
> > couldn't collect a dime in royalties. And one other
> thing, Alex 
> > Steinweiss did not invent album cover art. I recently
> did a 
> > presentation in New Orleans with photographs and
> release dates of at 
> > least 200 illustrated album covers that had been
> issued by a dozen 
> > labels prior to Steinweiss's first in April 1940. He
> was copying what 
> > other companies had already been doing. Decca had
> already issued about 
> > 125 albums starting Nov 1937 and there were
> illustrated covers on 
> > Liberty Music Shop, Music Box, Musicraft, Blue Note,
> Commodore, HMV, 
> > Victor, Brunswick, Bluebird, Vocalion, and even
> Columbia. Steinweiss 
> > was not anywhere near being first."
> > 
> > 
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