Got both this one and the original one a few minutes ago, PF, just so's ya knows.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Fraser" <pjfra...@alamedanet.net> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:04 AM Subject: [Phono-L] Fwd: Jack Mullin tape...was Re: Victor long playingrecords > trying again. is the list broken? > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: Peter Fraser <pjfra...@alamedanet.net> > > Date: May 19, 2006 8:14:53 PM PDT > > To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l@oldcrank.org> > > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Jack Mullin tape...was Re: Victor long > > playing records > > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
