On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Cowboy wrote:
A "cut" is a small segment of some sound recording. A cut pre-dates a cart. A cut was literally a portion of the material on a reel to reel tape, which was literally cut using razor blades.
It may go back even further; before reel-to-reel tape, recordings were "cut" to shellac or vinyl disks using a record cutter.
My understanding is that AC bias, which made high-fidelity reel-to-reel recording possible, was discovered accidentally by the Germans during World War II.
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