[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

[Hans en Corrie]

Thanks Michael - this is clear !!

In a correspondence December 1929 Durium suggests that they can organize a
recordings session at the St. Lawrence University ..... the boys from the
vocal quartet agreed to return to school. 

" Vilas points that the members of the quartet have agreed to return during
their holidays to school ( Three members live in New York or vicinity and
one is from Syracuse) so it would be great if Mr. Owen D. Young could find
"a few minutes of his time" during the Christmas recess to record his
speech; Professor Cram said: "I can arrange for the boys to be here".

Read my blog for details: 

http://hitoftheweek.blogspot.com/2010/01/alma-mater-preparations.html (copy
and paste)

http://hitoftheweek.blogspot.com/2010/01/alma-mater-record.html (copy and
paste)

It suggests that Durium can make record wherever it wants - but of course
the vocal quartet could also move to the Durium studio at the McGraw-Hill
building. 

Hans

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] Namens Michael Biel
Verzonden: woensdag 4 augustus 2010 9:05
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Onderwerp: Re: [78-L] Portable recordings facilities

  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
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