[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

[Michael Biel]

  On 8/4/2010 2:50 AM, Hans en Corrie wrote:
> I wondered if Durium could have had portable recording facilities.
>
> Hans
>

That's a different question from what we had been going after, 
considering a specific year of 1930, not the prior history.  The answer 
is also yes but that would be an extra expense to a small company which 
probably only had their one studio set-up.  Wax was still the recording 
medium for the actual masters, as the lacquer disc did not come about 
until 1934.  But uncoated aluminum was available, and Speak-O-Phone 
recordings made by Columbia professor Cabel Greet WERE the source of the 
Vachel Lindsey records that Durium released as dubs, considering that 
Lindsay had already died before Durium was in business.  But as was said 
before, other companies had portable set-ups in both the acoustical and 
electrical eras so it would also have been possible for Durium

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com