[78-L] King Edward VIII 1936 Farewell Speech

Sammy Jones sjones69 at bellsouth.net
Tue Mar 29 12:17:46 PDT 2011


Were they instantaneous recordings made on lacquer, or mastered on wax and then pressed?

Wasn't the BBC regularly using recordings on their news bulletins at this time?

Sammy Jones

Martin Fenton wrote: 
> The BBC's archive recording was made onto 78rpm via GPO
> landline at 
> Maida Vale Studios. Double-recorded on four machines (two
> recording at 
> any one time, with overlap, in case of mechanical
> failure.)



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