Re: [ARSCLIST] Early Stereo 1881 and 1931 (Was - Dynadoodoo

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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:14:33 -0700
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David Gnau wrote:

The first commercial stereo that I'm familiar with was done by Cook Labs. The LP was divided in half for the left and right tracks. The tone arm looked like a large tuning fork (each cartridge picked up one track). When it was right it was great. If one of the heads was off one groove it was horrible requiring an adjustment to a small adjusting screw which would move the heads either closer together or further apart.

Technically, the Cook recordings were binaural, not stereo. I first heard one ("Gulls and Buoys") in late 1953.

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