[78-L] Orthoacoustic

[Dave Burnham]

Maybe I misread it, perhaps it was orthacoustic.  

db

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> On Jul 19, 2014, at 10:44 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> I've seen "orthacoustic", never "orthoacoustic". Difference?
> 
> (Actually it refers to any pre-electric recordings of "In A Clock Store" which 
> is the only piece I know of composed by a man named Charles J. Orth.)
> 
> dl
> 
>> On 7/19/2014 10:28 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> 
>> I think Orthacoustic was a recording curve only used for transcriptions,
>> not for commerical 78s.
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 3:14 AM, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com.invalid>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> I have always believed that the American record manufacturers introduced
>>> high frequency pre-emphasis in 1936; however, I was just reading the
>>> Sherman/Nauck book "A collectors guide to Victor Records" and they say that
>>> it was introduced at the end of 1939, and it was called "orthoacoustic".
>>>  Am I miss-reading something here or is 1939 the correct date?
>>> 
>>> db
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