Hows 'bout if I give you a DVD of it? e-mail me directly. ----- Original Message ----- From: <pjfra...@alamedanet.net> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 7:01 PM Subject: [Phono-L] Jack Mullin tape...was Re: Victor long playing records
>I have a unit which burns DVDs directly from VHS tapes, and would gladly > burn copies of this for list-pals, for the cost of postage...if Doug would > see fit to lend it out for that purpose. Doug? > > -- peter > pjfra...@alamedanet.net > > Doug wrote: >> The Antique Radio Club Of Illinois sold a videotape a few years ago, >> titled:" An Afternoon With Jack Mullin". It runs 50 minutes, and I >> believe >> that it was put out by the Audio Engineering Society. I have a copy, and >> watch it occasionally. He covers early phonograph history very well, and >> has >> an outstanding demonstration of the same Victor record playing on >> acoustical, then switching to Orthophonic. He was a fine collector of >> phonographs and tape devices. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Robert Wright" <esrobe...@hotmail.com> >> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 6:02 PM >> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Victor long playing records >> >> >>> From: "Doug" <cdh...@earthlink.net> >>>> I can't imagine any record maker in the thirties intending their discs >>>> to >>> be >>>> played with a sound box.> >>> >>> Were the heavy electric pickups any better? I had a Brunswick Panatrope >>> for >>> a while, and though I never got the amp working, the GE/RCA motor >>> worked >>> great, quiet and steady. The pickup head was hinged but not >>> counterbalanced, and it could eat through 30's 78's with the best of >>> 'em. >>> (The 'plinth' board, if you will, also generated a roomful of acoustic >>> output.) >>> >>> >>>> All right, on another topic. Magnetic tape recording was IN USE in >>>> Germany >>>> in the thirties. Do you think that the recording companies in this >>>> country >>>> didn't know about it? It would be a threat to their markets to have a >>>> recordable medium in the hands of buyers who would otherwise buy disc >>>> recordings. It proved to be just that, after Jack Mullin imported his >>>> two >>>> Magnetophones at the end of WWII, and Crosby went on the air, using one >>>> of >>>> them in 1947. >>> >>> With what Germany was brewing up during that time, I wonder if any >>> technology was leaving the German borders. I'm no WWII expert, but >>> I've >>> always just assumed there was an iron veil over all the sciences in >>> 30's >>> Germany. This article on John Mullin touches on this, saying that >>> "Although >>> the German technical press covered advances during the 1920s, the '30s, >>> and >>> even the early 1940s, Britons and Americans were largely unaware of >>> these >>> technology developments." It's a fascinating read and answers a lot of >>> questions (while raising a few); here's the link: >>> http://www.tvhandbook.com/History/History_mullin.htm >>> >>> One wonders. The first magnetic recording was demonstrated in 1898 by >>> a >>> Danish inventor named Poulsen. Seems the more we know, the more there >>> is >>> to >>> learn. I'm gonna go finish that Mullin article. >>> >>> -r. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Phono-L mailing list >>> Phono-L@oldcrank.org >>> >>> Phono-L Archive >>> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >>> >>> Support Phono-L >>> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Phono-L mailing list >> Phono-L@oldcrank.org >> >> Phono-L Archive >> http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ >> >> Support Phono-L >> http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > Phono-L@oldcrank.org > > Phono-L Archive > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org/archive/ > > Support Phono-L > http://www.cafepress.com/oldcrank >
