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 >
