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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