The Cook label and, perhaps, his papers, were given by him to the
Smithsonian. There is also an interview with Jeff Place and another with
improvised, unstructured, somewhat superficial questions by myself. I was
there to appraise and just picked up the mike and ad libbed some technical
questions based on earlier conversations. I seem to recall a discussion
about cutting stylus development as part of it. Don't recall if it made it
to the cassette.
Steve Smolian
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From: Tom Fine
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2012 3:02 PM
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Subject: [ARSCLIST] Early US stereophony - Emory Cook
Some historical documentation regarding Emory Cook and Cook Laboratories:
1. Tele-Tech magazine article, 1952, about Cook's binaural (dual-groove)
records:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55748706/Tele-Tech-5211-Emory_Cook-Recording_Binaural_Sound_on_Discs.pdf
2. Emory Cook in his own words, describing his binaural records:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55748706/Emory_Cook-Binaural_Disks.pdf
3. High Fidelity, 10/54, cover story on Cook:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55748706/High_Fidelity-5410-Emory_Cook.pdf
4. A brochure from Cook Laboratories, describing their operations in the
late 60's. By then, they
were focusing on educational/industrial customers rather than Cook as
record-label entrepreneur:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55748706/Cook_Laboratories-1960s_brochure.pdf
Note all the gear from Cook's Connecticut neighbor, Scully. There's also an
Ampex 300 in the stereo
cutting room.
-- Tom Fine
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