[78-L] Portable recordings facilities

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Must have been the drums.
Mal

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On 8/3/2010 9:28 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Although I have heard that the Vachel Lindsay records were dubbed,  he was
> alive when Durium was founded...he committed suicide in late 1931.
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> Taylor
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> From: "Michael Biel"<mbiel at mbiel.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 12:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Portable recordings facilities
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>>   On 8/4/2010 2:50 AM, Hans en Corrie wrote:
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>>> I wondered if Durium could have had portable recording facilities.
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>>> Hans
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>> 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
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>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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