[78-L] Same take - different stamper?

[David Lennick]

Okay, the T1 is the answer..it's a dub. Victors would have a tiny R after the 
take number if the disc had been dubbed on this side of the Atlantic (and if 
I'm not mistaken, my Victor pressing IS a dub, with low static throughout). As 
for its being laminated, that's impossible unless it's an Australian pressing.

dl

On 12/25/2011 9:11 PM, Tim Huskisson wrote:
> I was sorting through some 78 duplicates and discovered two copies of a
> British HMV, number B-5629 with a performance of "I Lift Up My Finger And I
> Say 'Tweet! Tweet!'" by Leslie Sarony with Jack Hylton's Orchestra. Both use
> matrix BR2325 take2, but I'm puzzled as to why one copy has wider groove
> spacing than the other. The distance from lead-in to lead-out is greater on
> one of the copies, and consequently a smaller label is used.
> I've listened carefully to both 'versions', but they are absolutely
> identical performances, and this is confirmed by the 'take 2' symbol: II,
> which appears in the lead-out area of both discs.
> Does this mean that one of these is a dubbing? Or is it possible that two
> masters were simultaneously cut at the recording session?
> There may be a clue, in that the disc with the wider groove spacing and
> small label appears to be laminated and has an additional marking in the
> lead-out area: T1. I should mention that the reverse sides of both discs use
> identical pressings with identical markings.
> Any comments gratefully received.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim Huskisson
>