Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-22 Thread Robert Wright
22:31:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? I also believe that RCA's pre-grooved discs were purely vinyl. I bought a box of new ones a few years ago, and tried to make a recording off of the sir on the RCA 381 phono combo I have. The result was, that there was a recording

Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-20 Thread Douglas Houston
his LP discs. [Original Message] From: Robert Wright esrobe...@hotmail.com To: Phono L phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: 11/20/2010 12:01:23 AM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? Actually, the Victor Home Recordings discs are straight up modern vinyl in every perceivable way -- exactly

[Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-19 Thread Bruce Mercer
I was under the impression that vinyl came along some time after picture discs came on the scene. I always thought they were laminated with Durium, the clear surface that coated Hit of the Week records. Bruce M. ___ Phono-L mailing list

Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Wright
@oldcrank.org Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:42:03 -0600 Subject: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? I was under the impression that vinyl came along some time after picture discs came on the scene. I always thought they were laminated with Durium, the clear surface that coated Hit of the Week records. Bruce M

Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Wright
and more easily processed material that soon achieved widespread commercial use. Wiki can be a wonderful (if not reliably trustworthy) thing! From: esrobe...@hotmail.com To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:49:04 + Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? I think the Victor

Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-19 Thread Douglas Houston
PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? Yup, the vinyl modern records are made from has been around way longer than Victor picture discs, and BFGoodrich got it to be fully functional in 1926, see below: PVC was accidentally discovered at least twice in the 19th century, first in 1835 by Henri

Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Wright
. From: cdh...@earthlink.net To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:52:47 -0500 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? I was surprised a few years ago to see that RCA used Vinyl on their LP discs of the early thirties. In many places, the material for those Program Transcriptions

Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-19 Thread Mike Stitt
) were fully PVC like modern records. Vinyl didn't become common until the LP in 1949 as far as I remember. From: cdh...@earthlink.net To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:52:47 -0500 Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? I was surprised a few years ago to see that RCA

Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl?

2010-11-19 Thread Robert Wright
. Can't hear what's recorded on any of them really. Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:17:21 -0800 From: smst...@gmail.com To: phono-l@oldcrank.org Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Really Vinyl? I may it wrong but years ago over at Bob Olson's house we were picking thru' Bob's records as he was down