[78-L] Jack Jackson date

[Kristjan Saag]

Perhaps I should add that many of Gramophone Company's pre Abbey 
Road-recordings were not made in Hayes, but in Small Queen's Hall at 
Langham Place, near Oxford Street. This was the smaller of two concert 
halls in the building, also used for lectures, political meetings etc.. 
Queen's Hall was used as a recording venue even after 1931; Toscanini 
recorded here later in the 1930's, for instance.
The building was destroyed in an air raid in 1941.
 From 1925, well into the 1980's the Gramophone Company also used the 
Kingsway Hall in Holborn for recording purposes, mainly for classical 
music, but also for popular.
Finally: the Abbey Road studios were officially opened on November 12 
1931, but recording started earlier; Jack Hylton made his first 
recordings there in September.
Kristjan


> J. E. Knox wrote:
>
>>
>> I still wonder which specific studio was used...the matrix prefix is
>> supposed to be an indication to some degree, and I thought the 0EA/
>> 2EA sides came from Abbey Road, but I know the Rust books (aside from
>> VMB) rarely specify such ephemera. The matrix number in the wax is
>> accompanied by a square, indicating the "Blumlein" recording system
>> (again, as I understand it).
>> --
> Rust wrote an article about the HMV numbering system in Gramophone in
> 1971. Here's about the OEA series and the ones that predated it:
>
>   >  The Hayes code from 1921 was Bb for 10-inch, Cc for 12-inch;
> Zonophone used Yy and Zz prefixes to the same block of numbers. On
> January 1st, 1931, the system was scrapped again, and a new start made
> at OB and 2B, or OY and 2Y. The opening of the Abbey Road studios on
> November 12th, 1931, made no difference to the numbers, but the series
> was scrapped yet again from August 23rd. 1934, and OEA and 2EA became
> the regular HMV matrix series, this time until the end of 78s.
> --
> The rest of the article can be read at:
> http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201971/45/829108/COLLECTORS+CORNER#header-logo
> Kristjan
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