[78-L] Late Pressed 78s.--Historic Masters & Symposium

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Tue Apr 26 18:35:46 PDT 2011


From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> The same applies for private pressings done for audition purposes, some of
> which fall off the back of the truck and into the hands of private 
> collectors.
> Hundreds of these from the Columbia/ARC vaults began turning up on 
> dealers'
> lists a few years ago..nice stuff, often unissued or alternate takes as 
> well as > issued versions.
>
A-ha..."the Altschuler pressings!" Mr. Altschuler (forget his first name)
had a high position at ARC...and took advantage of that to pull out
stampers for noted jazz 78's...and then run off and sell copies thereof...!

Steven C. Barr 



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