I stopped at an estate sale this morning and picked up about a dozen Diamond Discs. Nothing earth shattering but I happened to run into someone on the way out who stopped me to talk records. He pointed at the records and said his father had, at one point, some real thick records from Edison. So I showed him that these were indeed thick and Edison records. He insisted that he knew of these, has some, but his father had "the early ones" that were even thicker, one sided and motioned with his two fingers that they could have been 1/2" to 1" thick. He said they were donated to a local school so I'll see if they still exist there, which is unlikely, because it was a long time ago.
What could he be referring to? He was adamant that it wasn't the standard 1/4" thick discs. I see in Frow's book that master wax discs were 1" thick (page 215). This is possible. Were there any experimental records made that are known to be thicker? I'll keep you posted if someone at the school is willing to let me dig around their storage. Glenn From [email protected] Sat Apr 26 18:30:13 2008 From: [email protected] (Ron L'Herault) Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:30:13 -0400 Subject: [Phono-L] Chat Message-ID: <003f01c8a806$3e6e5f30$2f01a...@ronlherault> The chat, which was not operational earlier tonight is up and running. Ron L
