[78-L] 1923 Columbia Demonstration Record Sleeve

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com.invalid
Tue May 31 14:12:17 PDT 2016


Australia made laminated pressings for EMI material and even UK Decca which
was pressed and distributed by the Columbia part of EMI.  I don't know when
that was discontinued, however.

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:42 PM, Inigo Cubillo <ice261263 at gmail.com.invalid>
wrote:

>
> Yes. The new process was merely a clever trick for improving the shellac
> record quality without increasing noticeably it's cost. The shellac record
> formula was divided in two different mixtures; one, coarser, for the record
> core, and another much more finely grinded, and with more shellac content,
> to be used on the outer surfaces. Both mixtures were pressed one over the
> other in layers, separated by intermediate cellulose tissue layers. The
> result was the laminated shellac record, with coarser core and finer record
> surfaces. The resulting records were somewhat quieter.
> The fabrication process was more complex, but it must not have been a
> drawback, for American Columbia used it until... 1945?, as did other
> Columbia European branches (France, Italy, Germany, Turkey...). In the UK
> this process was abandoned.
> In Spain it was used by Columbia, Odeon and Parlophon, until 1933. Then the
> EMI amalgamation took effect in Spain and the laminated records
> disappeared, as in England. Gramophone of Barcelona took over Odeon and
> Regal and killed Parlophon, producing only standard shellac records since
> then. The new process in Spain ended, and all points to a British Columbia
> owned patent. Our independent Columbia was forced to stop operation. The
> Spanish Columbia agents then used their american agreement side (by then
> the American Columbia, amalgamated into ARC, was again independent from the
> British branch, amalgamated into EMI) to continue operating under a new
> society, also named Columbia, but completely independent from European EMI
> branches, and completely a Spanish venture. They never produced again the
> laminated records.
>
> Saludos,
>
> Iñigo
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