[78-L] Alban Berg on Tilophan and acoustical self-recording equipment

[David Lennick]

On 1/26/2011 8:21 PM, Benno Häupl wrote:
> The label name is actually THILOPHAN. And the PAILLARD sleeve comes from a Swiss label.
But the image is clearly of a label printed as TILOPHAN, not THILOPHAN.
http://www.r2ok.co.uk/tilaphon.jpg

dl

>
> Under the name of THILOPHAN we have the following, marketed products and services:
>
> 1)  a THILOPHAN acoustical (!) recording equipment marketed in 1930. It could be used for remote recordings, because the
> heaviest part was the weight for the speed control (60kg = 132 lbs.)
> Because the equipment could be taken anywhere in a car, the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv used such a machine for field
> recordings of ethnic music. The Zürich Phonogrammarchiv, too, had one such machine for a while.
>
> 2)  an electrical THILOPHAN recording equipment was marketed as from 1931 and sold internationally in Europe. This machine, too, could be carried anywhere, using the same lead gravity weight for speed accuracy.
>
> 3)  a THILOPHAN recording studio in Vienna, open for professional and private, vanity recordings. Some of these recordings appeared on the KALLIOPE label. Matrix numbers were simple, the highest I have seen is something like 658. Some of the Austrian Jazz from THILOPHAN was re-issued on a Harlekin CD in the UK.
>
> 4)  regular THILOPHAN 10 inch pressed shellac discs, mostly with classical music . One such record was recently offered for auction
> by Andreas Schmauder (www.78rpm.de):
> Rothschild - Quartett (Kaufmann - Kreiner - Czegka) 10" el. Tilophan A 97 4.movt. pt.1/2 "Streichquartett in E-dur, op.96"
> (Dvorak) mx.396/ 397 Chamber music practice record for first violin; in original sleeve, with orig.music sheet for 1st violin
>
> 5)  then there were 21 cm (about 8.2 inch) flexible, cardboard-based THILOPHAN discs made at their studio (and at some homes)
> Here is an example:
> http://cgi.ebay.at/78rpm-TILOPHAN-21cm-KARTON-FLEXIBLE-MEGARAR-/380291737569
>
> This should also answer the question if there ever was an acoustic home recording equipment.
>
> Benno
>
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