[78-L] 14" Pathe

[Michael Biel]

That might be a good indicator of the speed of the Pathe master 
cylinders.  Normal cylinders would be 160 RPM which would be two per 
disc rev of 80 RPM.   I don't recall ever noticing a cyclicable sound on 
a Pathe/Perfect disc that could be used like that.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 1/6/2011 3:15 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 13:46 -0500, David Lennick wrote:
>
>> Not to mention all the thumps and bumps from mechanical equipment and people
>> walking around in the studio.
>
> I have a Pathe Actuelle with the hymn "Abide With Me" sung by a male
> quartet; at the very end of the record, right before the spiral-out, it
> has a steady rhythmic "thump thump thump thump", about four beats per
> second, for maybe five seconds.
>
> When I first acquired this record, as a youth, I thought maybe it was
> some crude early signal to the consumer that the record was over. Today
> I realize that it was probably noise from the cylinder player reaching
> the end of the record, carried through the pantograph onto the disc
> master.
>
> MS