Mike,
If I’m reading you correctly, this would mean this was mastered twice (simultaneously?), one at 78 and one at 33 on a 16” disc. Is that correct? My previous understanding was that everything after about 1940 was mastered on 33. What details are we missing on this?
Rodger Holtin
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> On Feb 19, 2021, at 4:29 PM, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> T does not mean tape. It means Transfer, as in Transfer from 16-inch Western Electric Wide Range Vertical master disc. That also is what the W on Deccas stands for. Notice the missing W on the non transferred one?
> Mike Biel
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> Hello-I have two copies of Decca 23547 – Siboney and Hasta Manana by bing Crosby with Xavier Cugat.
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> Both sides have this aberration.
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> Siboney on the Canadian issue – the MX is L3535B – dating from February 11, 1945
> Siboney on the American pressing is WL3535T6B
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> I am just recording the one with the T and will compare the recordings once recorded.
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> Does a firm date exist for when Decca started mastering on tape? I have seen this before, but on records that would have preceded the tape process - Mickey
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