[78-L] Howard Scott obit

[David Lennick]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/arts/music/howard-h-scott-a-developer-of-the-lp-dies-at-92.html?hpw&_r=1&

The transfers were made from 16-inch lacquers, not 78s, but that fact is too 
complicated for young journalists to comprehend. What I'm curious about is how 
they did those dubs without back-cuing the discs, since that would ruin them. 
Does anyone know? Did the 16-inch originals have lead-in grooves? That would 
enable you to count the number of turns from a given point at the outside. The 
other week I was listening to Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony on Columbia ML 4052. 
The joins are absolutely undetectable except for a tempo change in the first 
movement, and I know the 78s. (The tempo change was the result of a two or 
three week hiatus between recording sessions, by the way.)

dl