[78-L] Timeless

[Leroy Barco]

 I’m happy when an open horn  machine is shown and is not a crap-o-phone…
Or the sound box is not shown playing to the left of the spindle.

LeRoy

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:08 PM Kristjan Saag <saag at telia.com.invalid>
wrote:

>
> This, perhaps, answers your question.
>
> http://www.cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/arsclist/2004/05/msg00128.html
> Kristjan
>
> On 2018-04-23 21:10, gmail - i.collect.records wrote:
> > Did anyone catch last night's ep of Timeless? It was about Robert
> > Johnson recording in San Antonio in 1936. Purty kewl seeing the
> > recorder, altho I am not sure it was accurate for 1936, not that I
> > would know. I was expecting to see lacquers, but what they showed
> > looked more like shellac discs, not even wax as I've seen in films
> > from that period. Vocalion was prominent on the label. I'm not even
> > sure recording blanks of the time would have had a paper label. So
> > what tech would have been used in 1936 for making location recordings?
> > Is there info on what was used specifically for Johnson's recordings
> > from 1936?
>
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