[78-L] Egad..a quiet English 78 pressing!

[Kristjan Saag]

The Norwegians even engraved "dub" in handwriting in the runout area of 
the dub pressings.
Kristjan

On 2014-06-24 14:57, David Lennick wrote:
>
> Guess what..that happened in Canada as well. Many 45 masters were dubbed from
> US pressings in the 60s and probably earlier. Some late Canadian 78 issues were
> obviously dubbed from 45s, with wow to prove it.
>
> dl
>
> On 6/24/2014 6:20 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>>
>> One of the reasons why Scandinavian pressings can be better than UK
>> pressings is that the number of copies made from the matrices usually
>> was very low.
>> On the other hand: in the late 1960's it was revealed that Norwegian EMI
>> (or it's predecessor, to be exact - the Norwegian branch of EMI was
>> founded in 1969) had dubbed vinyl discs instead of using matrices for
>> some of the Norwegian issues of popular 45's...
>> Kristjan
>>
>>
>> On 2014-06-24 04:27, David Lennick wrote:
>>>
>>> Explains why it's quiet, then..it ISN'T an English pressing.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 6/23/2014 8:54 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The Norwegian Columbia GN 1167 was issued in 1950. At the time Columbia
>>>> was distributed in Norway by Iversen&   Frogh A/S who also handled Odeon
>>>> and Parlophone. These labels had their own pressing plant in Olso.
>>>> Kristjan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2014-06-24 00:07, David Lennick wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for this info. The disc's owner had it tagged as Co(Den) and nothing on
>>>>> the label provided the correct country, since it still said Columbia
>>>>> Graphophone Company. Definitely appears to be a 40s EMI pressing unless Norway
>>>>> did its own pressings.
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>
>>>>> On 6/23/2014 4:59 PM, Per Ahlin wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Columbia prefixes
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DD = Danish
>>>>>> DS = Swedish
>>>>>> DY = Finnish
>>>>>> GN = Norwegian
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So Columbia GN 1167 is Norwegian, not Danish.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Per Ahlin
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Will wonders never cease. Even though it was pressed in England, it's
>>>>>>> Danish Columbia GN 1167, The Golden Gate Quartet. Late 40s, VG+
>>>>>>> condition, some rubs, but quiet surfaces! Again, presumably getting
>>>>>>> the record away from the English climate is the reason.....?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> dl
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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