The description is certainly wrong. This is a vertical recording and corresponds perfectly to the references I have about the 1884 disc Graphophone which used this kind of discs too. Like with the tinfoil phonographs, the groove was pre-cut but then filled with wax instead of covering it with tinfoil. The dropped the disc format soon because it seemed to be too complicated for regular use.
At 07:55 01.06.2008, you wrote: >http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/recording/images/PDRM1554a.jpg > >They label this as a lateral disc recording, but to me it looks >vertical, just that the sound waves are near the top so they look >lateral. The date 1881, many years before the Berliner disc, has >anyone played this disc? Was this disc known about previous to the >Berliner patent on disc records? You would think that the patent >office would have not accepted the Berliner patents if this was known about?? >; >_________________________________________________________________ >Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the i'm Initiative from >Microsoft. >http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause >_______________________________________________ >Phono-L mailing list >http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
