I may it wrong but years ago over at Bob Olson's house we were picking thru' Bob's records as he was down sizing. The Record Ranger picked up a 7" victor that was flexible. Teasing me to get it first Vinyl he says and rare. The label was from the 20's. Could be wrong about any or all of it. Damn I wanted that record. Mike Oldcranky
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Robert Wright <esrobe...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Actually, the Victor Home Recordings discs are straight up modern vinyl in > every perceivable way -- exactly as flexible and plasticky as today's > records. And those were what, 1929? Vitrolac, MGM's Metrolite, and other > branded fomulations were part vinyl, part shellac-type something-or-other, > and were certainly more flexible (less breakable) than shellac discs, but > they were still more like shellac than pure vinyl. Meanwhile, the V-Discs > from WWII (many of them but not all) were fully PVC like modern records. > Vinyl didn't become common until the LP in 1949 as far as I remember. > > > > From: cdh...@earthlink.net > > To: phono-l@oldcrank.org > > Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:52:47 -0500 > > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? > > > > I was surprised a few years ago to see that RCA used Vinyl on their LP > > discs of the early thirties. In many places, the material for those > Program > > Transcriptions was identified as "Victrolite" whatever that was supposed > to > > have been. But, I have the RCA Victor dealer fact book from 1932, where > the > > Long Playing records were anounced, and they said that the discs were > made > > of "Vinylite". It's really interesting how vinyl plastics ahve been > around, > > in one form or another. > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
