[78-L] Spiked Edge Victor Test Pressing

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 25 15:06:29 PDT 2013


I'd definitely not want to be in the room when one of those was flung off a 
Capehart.

dl

On 3/25/2013 5:53 PM, Clifford Bolling wrote:
> I have a 1932 Victor test pressing featuring MELODY by the Leo Reisman Orchestra.  The edge has 'spikes'.
>
> It looks like it was done while the 'wax' was still soft enought to easily cut away.
>
> What was the reason for this?  A couple of the spikes still have traces of the recording session info scratched
> into them.  You can see this disc on YouTube at:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMVXT7OVlng
>
> Weird.
>
> CDB
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