|
|
|
|
|||||||
| Vintage Audio (record players, hi-fi etc) Amplifiers, speakers, gramophones and other audio equipment. |
 |
|
|
Thread Tools |
16th Nov 2022, 7:47 pm
|
#1 |
|
Tetrode
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.
Posts: 70
|
The Gramophone Company 78’s
Looking through a pile of 78’s I discovered these.
The limited info I could find online would suggest the labels were used pre 1907 yet the date on one looks to be 1927. Does anyone know more? Thanks, Bill |
|
|
|
16th Nov 2022, 10:25 pm
|
#2 |
|
Dekatron
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Madrid, Spain / Wirral, UK
Posts: 6,929
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
Never seen one, I suspect they were later superceded by acetates for advance copies. Presumably these are shellac.
__________________
Regards, Ben. |
|
|
|
|
16th Nov 2022, 10:59 pm
|
#3 |
|
Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Lincolnshire, UK.
Posts: 4,540
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
The date looks like 1922, so pre electrical recording. Vintage acoustically recorded advance promotion records.
|
|
|
|
|
16th Nov 2022, 11:11 pm
|
#4 |
|
Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Lincolnshire, UK.
Posts: 4,540
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
Also, I note that the covers are advertising Bandmaster gramophones. If these were new enough to be electrical recordings I believe that part of the embossed number (or symbol) in the run-out groove area would indicate which make of electrical recording apparatus was used for the recording.
Last edited by Techman; 16th Nov 2022 at 11:19 pm. Reason: Added symbol. |
|
|
|
|
16th Nov 2022, 11:13 pm
|
#5 |
|
Octode
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK.
Posts: 1,688
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
The Gramophone Company became HMV in 1912
__________________
- Julian It's good here 
|
|
|
|
|
16th Nov 2022, 11:15 pm
|
#6 |
|
Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Lincolnshire, UK.
Posts: 4,540
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
The 22 could be a badly written 11, so 1911.
|
|
|
|
|
17th Nov 2022, 12:01 am
|
#7 |
|
Dekatron
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Fakenham, Norfolk, UK.
Posts: 3,727
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
My guess would be that they felt no need to update the labels on these pre-release discs to use the HMV name. Albert Coates became the LSO's chief conductor in 1919, and a Google Groups user has uploaded a recording of him conducting the orchestra (well, a part of it anyway...) in Till Eugenspiegel, dating the recording session as November 4th, 1921:
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.musi...MRZYaIUJ?pli=1 Paul |
|
|
|
17th Nov 2022, 7:36 am
|
#8 |
|
Tetrode
Join Date: Feb 2020
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK.
Posts: 70
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
Nice bit of detective work Paul
|
|
|
|
|
27th Nov 2022, 3:13 pm
|
#9 | |
|
Octode
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK.
Posts: 1,688
|
Re: The Gramophone Company 78’s
Quote:
__________________
- Julian It's good here
|
|
|
|
|
