[78-L] Whistle-Stop

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 18 16:37:16 PDT 2010


I've seen it referred to as 'cutter whistle'....the problem stemmed from
waxes that were either insufficiently heated prior to cutting or which had
cooled too much by the time cutting began, so that the cutting stylus was
subtly chattering as it was cutting the wax.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>wrote:

> Many of my late 20s Orthophonic Victors have a very distinct "whistle" to
> them as they get closer to the end.  I don't think it came from a dog or a
> human...but it's real!
>
> Someone told me that it comes from the way the record masters were cut...is
> that so?  Non-techy minds want to know.
>
> Taylor
>
> P.S.  My spell-check wanted to replace "Orthophonic" with "Orthorhombic."
>  I
> was tempted,  but decided against it.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Singing Dogs^
>
>
> > Don Chichester wrote:
> >> You mean the dog bark on "The Whistler and His dog" might not be real???
> >>
> >> Don
> >>
> >>
> >
> > No, the dog is real.  The whistler isn't.
> >
> > Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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