----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Mercer" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Phono-L Digest, Vol 3, Issue 109
> > > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 15:02:00 -0400 >> From: "Dan Kj" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] The Practical Long Play Record >> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <004a01c66e1a$e7120240$6600a...@new> >> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; >> reply-type=original >> >> So, did Theodore work on the Edison LP at all ? > > No. Charles picked up after T.A. retired in 1927, leaving him head of the > company in that year. Both Charles and Theodore went to MIT with Theodore > having a penchant for mathematical physics and was secretly pursuing > electrical recording and playback in a separate laboratory set up for him. > It was during this time that electrical recording 'finally' got into gear. > It is Theodore we have to thank for the marvelous C-1 and C-2 phonographs. > The pick-up is absolutely ingenious and the phonographs have a wonderful > sound, especially playing the 52000 series. Unfortunately, they came too > late. They were brought out late in 1928 and were the last phonographs > made by the company. Very few C-1s are known. Only a few dozen C-2s are > known to exist, of which I am a proud owner and can attest to their usual > Edison quality. > btw...the L.P. cylinder Edison made in 1899 had 450 grooves per inch. > Obviously, it wasn't practical at that time either for even more reasons, > one being a suitable material for pressing. Still, that's when the L.P. > work began and was first achieved. As far as Theodore goes, I bow to him > for the electronic phonographs and that ingenious pick-up with the offset > diamond stylus. > > Bruce >
