[78-L] HMV matrix symbols

[Matthew Duncan]

Very true - HMV weren't keeping individual issues in the catalogue very long at that time either...they really struggled in the Depression I believe.
 
People who normally bought popular music on records had either stopped buying records completely or had switched to buying cheaper records in droves...three shillings for an HMV or sixpence for an Eclipse record from Woolworths was an easy choice for folk to make!
 
Matt in the UK
 

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 From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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It's amazing how many dance bands HMV didn't have in August 1934. Hylton was 
between contracts, Ambrose was with Decca. Gracie was the only artist 
straddling the change (probably lots of others but I didn't have time to look 
through every discography). And of course I didn't think to check Noble.

dl

On 7/25/2012 3:29 PM, Matthew Duncan wrote:
> 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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> 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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>> 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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