[Phono-L] 1881 Bell Tainter Disc
The description is certainly wrong. This is a vertical recording and corresponds perfectly to the references I have about the 1884 disc Graphophone which used this kind of discs too. Like with the tinfoil phonographs, the groove was pre-cut but then filled with wax instead of covering it with tinfoil. The dropped the disc format soon because it seemed to be too complicated for regular use. At 07:55 01.06.2008, you wrote: >http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/images/PDRM1554a.jpg > >They label this as a lateral disc recording, but to me it looks >vertical, just that the sound waves are near the top so they look >lateral. The date 1881, many years before the Berliner disc, has >anyone played this disc? Was this disc known about previous to the >Berliner patent on disc records? You would think that the patent >office would have not accepted the Berliner patents if this was known about?? >; >_ >Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from >Microsoft. >http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause >___ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
[Phono-L] 1881 Bell Tainter Disc
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/images/PDRM1554a.jpg They label this as a lateral disc recording, but to me it looks vertical, just that the sound waves are near the top so they look lateral. The date 1881, many years before the Berliner disc, has anyone played this disc? Was this disc known about previous to the Berliner patent on disc records? You would think that the patent office would have not accepted the Berliner patents if this was known about?? ; _ Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the i?m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause
[Phono-L] Union
I most likely will not be attending this year, would like to but will probably be working. Edison Phonograph Works has a new phone number and address, I moved to Peru IL about 7 months ago. I will have some more blanks up for sale soon on the website http://members.tripod.com/~edison_1/ Will also be putting up some Wax Amberols for sale too. _ Change the world with e-mail. Join the i?m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ChangeWorld
