Group - I've burned a mess of them and have started assembling the packages, to mail tomorrow.
If you've already asked for one, I've emailed you the details and you know what to do next regarding payment... It's not too late for anyone else to sign up for one; send me your name and address and I'll send you the paypal/etc info. -- Peter On May 2, 2006, at 9:45 PM, Peter Fraser wrote: > Doug's going to burn a DVD of it and then send that to me for > duplication. So you can start sending me emails with your > addresses. be sure to put "Mullin" in the header of the message. > > On May 2, 2006, at 4:01 PM, pjfra...@alamedanet.net wrote: > >> 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 > > > > -- Peter > pjfra...@alamedanet.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
