I would suspect that Smolian was the transfer engineer for that record. Why the name was scratched in I don't know, unless the original owner wanted to know who engineered projects in his collection. Joe Salerno 713-6688650 Industrial Video Services http://joe.salerno.com David Lennick wrote: > Can anyone..including Steve..explain why the copy I just picked up of > Arthur Loesser playing Brahms Sonatas on Perennial 2005 has the word > "SMOLIAN" scratched into the label of Side 2 or possibly right into the > lacquer, with the S and N backwards? Did DBH engrave the name into the > master or is this just on this particular copy (which might have come > from Don Hodgman)? > > Inquiring minds etc. etc.! > > dl > > __________ NOD32 2035 (20070203) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > >