Re: [ARSCLIST] NY Times: Researchers Play Tune Recorded before Edison

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

Tom Fine wrote:
> Were retail-sales disks always pressed from manufacturing parts of some 
> sort or was that a Berliner or later innovation? Didn't cylinders have 
> to be made in batches, mechanically copied from a "master" and weren't 
> the batches relatively small? Or was that just Concert cylinders?

My understanding, subject to correction even more than usually.

Originally, discs and cylinders were one-off using multiple 'recorders' 
to make multiple copies in one 'take'. The pantograph allowed copies 
from a master cylinder, but early in the twentieth century, the disc 
manufacturing process led to mass production, lowering costs 
correspondingly.

Mike
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