[78-L] Timeless

[Ron Roscoe]

Or when the needle is shown digging into the record, tilted towards the rear of the machine rather than towards the front.  You see this in lots of films with old phonographs "playing" records......

Ron Roscoe

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 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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