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WAMS - Making the Master
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Wolverine Antique Music Society. Edward Tatnall Canby - The Saturday Review. Processing and Making the Master. Plating plants are off in far city corners, or housed in strictly business like factory lofts. Plating the Lacquer Master. If we are to make an actual metal impression of the lacquer record; we must either flow on a metal and let it harden, or plate it on cold. The first process obviously being impossible (lacquer is a soft, highly inflammable plastic! Metal-Matrix Negative to Positive "Mother".
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WAMS - Cutting The Record
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Wolverine Antique Music Society. Edward Tatnall Canby - The Saturday Review. Cutting Heads - Cutting The Record. So much for assorted incidentals. How about the actual cutting? A tense business, even for the hardened operator! A half-hour side instead of a five-minute one - a half-hour ruined at every mishap! Excerps from the Saturday Review Home Book of Recorded Music and Sound Reproduction. By Edward Tatnall Canby, 1952 - Prentice-Hall, Inc. New York.
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WAMS - Perserving Sound
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Wolverine Antique Music Society. Edward Tatnall Canby - The Saturday Review. Perserving Sound in Time and Space - Phonographic Theory. The recording of sound involves, whatever the method, the actual preservation of a pattern of vibrations in time - a process that challenges the imagination. How can one record the element of time, then reproduce it? Not a simple problem at all. Time is usually translated into motion of some sort; when that motion is repeated, the time pattern may be reactivated. ...Intro...
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WAMS - Stamping The Record
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Wolverine Antique Music Society. Edward Tatnall Canby - The Saturday Review. Of Shellac and Wax - Stamping The Record. Wax" and "shellac" are terms we still associate in popular language with phonograph records. But not only has wax vanished as a medium for the actual cutting of records; shellac, too, is almost gone in favor of the new synthetic plastic products. Vinylite and the Shellac-less Shellac. Huge hoppers full of black powder, enormous and earth-shaking mills that grind tons of coarse material d...
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WAMS - Safely Shipping Shellac
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Wolverine Antique Music Society. How does one safely ship 78rpm shellac records? Below is a suggestion from a record collector who also works for the U.S.P.S. on how to send groups of records, using the "strength in numbers" paradigm. A proceedure to ship a single record follows. Prepared by: Chris Peterson, Binghamton, NY, USA. Next, locate a cardboard box rated to withstand a reasonable amount of pressure, and large enough so any "give" resulting from internal postal procedures will not reach the "mumm...
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WAMS - Electrical Recording
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Wolverine Antique Music Society. Edward Tatnall Canby - The Saturday Review. Sound into Electrons - Electrical Recording. Unlimited sensitivity in the picking up of sound, unlimited volume in the reproduction of records, and unprecedented faithfulness-these were the exciting stimulants that brought the phonograph record industry into its second great period of expansion, the climax of which could only be said to have come with the advent of the microgroove records a few years ago.
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WAMS - Acoustical Recording
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Wolverine Antique Music Society. Edward Tatnall Canby - The Saturday Review. In The Beginning - Acoustical Recording. The acoustical system, even in its later stages, was relatively crude and thoroughly unfaithful to the sound it recorded. Its message, to be sure, was intelligible, and that was what mattered. But to call it "reproduction" was truly imaginative! No wonder the operatic record became a favorite - it was almost the only feasible kind of music to record!
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