[78-L] HMV matrix symbols

[Matthew Duncan]

Just prior to when ''Our Gracie'' launched the 2nd chapter of her career (sort of) when she moved to Rex and Regal Zonophone and became boring (in my view)...thankfully her 20s HMVs still turn up today...
 
Matt in the UK.
 

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 From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Looks right..between July and October 1934, Gracie Fields matrices go from 0B 
to 0EA.

dl

On 7/25/2012 2:44 PM, Matthew Duncan wrote:
> The 0EA and 2EA prefixes seem to appear around Aug 1934 (early example in B series HMV book is by Derrickson and Brown recorded 23rd Aug 1934).
>
> Matt in the UK
>
>
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>   From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Bb and Cc (10" and 12") were in use from the 1920s, with BR and CR for
> electrical recordings from remote locations. At the beginning of 1931 a new
> system went into operation, 0B (that's zero-B) and 2B for 10-inch and 12-inch.
> 0EA and 2EA date from a little later (don't have that info in front of me). The
> symbols were a triangle, introduced in 1925, for Electrical, then the swastika
> briefly during 1932 until somebody noticed that someone else had appropriated
> that old Sanskrit symbol, and thereafter the square was used.
>
> Info from "Elgar On Record" notes.
>
> dl
>
> On 7/25/2012 2:02 PM, S&R Pinsker wrote:
>> There being a current kerfuffle over a singer with a swastika tattoo,
>> I recall that the matrix numbers of some HMV electrics  included a
>> swastika, others a triangle. One is Schnabel's Beethoven Concerto
>> No.1, recorded at Abbey Road in 1932. The matrix prefix is 2B instead
>> of 2EA. What is the significance of these symbols and what is the
>> difference between B and EA matrix numbers?
>> rdp
>>
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