[78-L] 14" Pathe

[Erwin Kluwer]

 A famous case where the mastercylinder was damaged early on is Caruso's "Tu
non mi vuoi piu bene": All disc copies, and all but the earliest cylinders,
suffer from three or four loud knocks during the final top note - evidently
someone badly scratched the master while making an early dub, and all
subsequent transfers have the extra noise

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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