Dear DL-


Artist: Ray Barretto
Title: Pachanga In Percussion
Matrix #: XK 8007
Format:Stereo (Plays from the inside out.)
Vinyl Compound & Color: Polymax/Red
Yes it has the 400hz alignment tone...
I can't speak for any other title but musically this record is a homerun!

AA


David Lennick wrote:
> Anyone remember, or even hear of, a label called FORTISSIMO produced 
> by Riverside in 1961? Super-quiet surfaces (wonder how they managed 
> that? Riverside never turned out a quiet disc in their lives), discs 
> cut from the inside out (changer owners must have loved that), master 
> tapes recorded at 60 IPS "with the heads oriented horizontally" 
> (whaaaaa..?), a 400hz alignment tone, and repertoire such as Racing 
> Cars, Jets, Pipe Organ (miked from inside, I think) and Banjo Polkas.
>
> Amazing what turns up in some of these old audio magazines that I've 
> never run across in over 45 years of record collecting.
>
> dl
>