[78-L] Curious find of Berliner's Lords Prayer
RUSSELL BARNES
r.barnes4 at btopenworld.com
Mon Apr 4 03:06:43 PDT 2011
Hello all,
Last week found (in a furniture restorer's workshop) in Wiltshire, UK a couple of boxes of 78s.
Most are in clean condition but somewhat warped. Odd things :-
A 12" single sided - white label - pressing of Emile Berliner's " Lord's Prayer " presumably from the 5" disc. So a twelve inch dia pressing, with about an inch or so of the recording, followed by a long spiral run out to the label. Typed label - "The voice of the Inventor of the Gramophone" - and alongside but written in ink the date 1948.
In the run-off are the letters ( hardy visible ) BBC and a number 12RH51705. Strange as it may seem I think it's pressed in shellac - but it just could be vinyl. Anyone heard of it ?
Others in the finds - 12" Red Label DECCA of an "Air Battle over the English Channel " during WWII.
Bernard Shaw on Linguaphone.
Gas Shells Bombardment during WWI
Leo Tolstoy on HMV Historic
Any information much appreciated,
Russ Barnes
Dorset, UK
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