I thought I read in "A Phonograph In Every Home" that many of the DD's were actually dubs of Blue
Amberols. I might be remembering this wrong.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lewis" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] That Allelujah chorus cylinder


> Mal,
>
> Not necessarily. The early Edison DDs were made out of material that IMHO
> were pretty bad for making records. If the disc was in the catalog a long
> time,
> then you may have a chance of finding one on a better pressing. Or if you
> find a DD that has hardly been played. But the BAs, despite presenting
> their own
> bag of issues, have slightly friendlier surfaces in a lot of cases.
>
> UD
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Malcolm Rockwell <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but... isn't this cylinder a dub of a take of Edison DD 80292-R?
>> And wouldn't the fidelity be even better on the "original"??
>> Malcolm
>>
>> *******
>>
>>
>> On 9/4/2014 12:35 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
>>
>>> Agree that is remarkably good sound for a cylinder!
>>>
>>> I'm guessing quite a large horn was used and a lot of care was used
>>> arranging and balancing the singers.
>>>
>>> Even so, there's still typical acoustic recording issues with dynamics
>>> (over-modulates anything loud, fails to capture anything soft). But the
>>> usable dynamic range of this recording system is much greater than early
>>> cylinder systems. Again, I'm guessing a large horn and more compliant
>>> cutting aparatus.
>>>
>>> -- Tom Fine
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Stamler" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2014 1:18 AM
>>> Subject: [ARSCLIST] That Allelujah chorus cylinder
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi folks:
>>>>
>>>> I was right -- finding Paul Fucito's page required going to the Wayback
>>>> Machine for Dec 16, 2007:
>>>>
>>>> http://web.archive.org/web/20071216110008/http://
>>>> paulfucito.blogspot.com/2007/12/vintage-christmas-wax-revisited.html
>>>>
>>>> Scroll down to the list of recordings; it's the fourth one down. The
>>>> notes suggest it *was* an Edison recording, presumably a Blue Amberol.
>>>> Given that it's an acoustical cylinder, delivered as an .mp3, I think the
>>>> sound is remarkable.
>>>>
>>>> Peace,
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
>