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Re: [ARSCLIST] 78rpm archaeology project
Thanks! Are the labels that don't seem to be paper (Little Wonder, some Edison
DD, etc) a sort of decal applied in the press, or are they etched somehow?
ollie
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:59:09 -0500
>From: "Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] 78rpm archaeology project
>To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Oliver Mueller-Heubach" <ommuel@xxxxxx>
>> For my two final papers/proposal, I am writing a semifictional lead-in from
>the
>> perspective of a 78, from pressing to excavation by an archaeologist. This
>sort
>> of intro actually has a bit of precedence among archaeologists, though they
>> usually write from the point of view of human agents. I have been watching
the
>> National Telefilms "Making Records with Duke Ellington" short and am
>> wondering- was each batch of shellac compound really put into a press by
hand
>> or was it much more mechanized and they just showed the waffle-iron
press to
>> elucidate the process? I assume the label is applied after the record
emerges
>> from the press..or?
>>
>A "biscuit" (a more-or-less round piece of shellac compound, which would
>be "squished" into a shellac-compound phonorecord...) was placed in the
>"press" (which consisted of both stampers). The two labels were also
>placed...one on top, one on the bottom...in the press. The result was
>(almost always) a pressed phonorecord, including not only both sides
>but also the labels therefor...!
>
>Steven C. Barr