[78-L] A question about Decca speeds

[bradc944 at comcast.net]

Thanks :) No Deccas in the current stacklet I'm doing, but I do have a Jacques Raynard (with Johnny Marvin on vocal) Victor scroll in there... with part of a Meier & Frank sticker on one label :)

I think this came from a certain bookstore on Sellwood...

Brad

----- Original Message -----
From: J. E. Knox <rojoknox at metroeast.org>
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Sent: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:22 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [78-L] A question about Decca speeds

Greetings from FixitLand!

bradc944 at comcast.net wrote:

>>> Now just have to find how to tell the difference between NY&  LA  
>>> Deccas :)


David Lennick wrote:

> LA Deccas are easy..the prefixes are either DLA or just L (after  
> about 1947).

Actually, just 'L' begins June or July 1942...right around the time  
of Bing's "White Christmas." As I recall it, I think the wax of Decca  
18429 A says 'L' but the label says 'DLA'. (Checking the Dock-o'- 
the-'Bay...yep, right about the label at least...)

> More difficult to tell NY from Chicago except by knowing the matrix  
> numbering
> systems.

Dunno about postwar, but prewar Decca Chicago matrices are in a (C-) 
9000 series, which soon became a 90000 series.

Take care,


Joe
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