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Thanks for this Mike. I don't recall seeing the Wheeler book reviewed in
the Journal. Can you tell us more about it? In that it carries a $95 price
tag your assessment of its research value would be appreciated by all of us.

Sam

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> There is no evidence that Western Electric ever showed their system to
> either Victor or Columbia before Nov or Dec 1924.  It certainly would
> have been mentioned in the Hewitt lab notebooks.  Columbia signed the
> contract with Western Electric on Feb 26, 1925 -- and this contract has
> just been published in facsimile by *Geoffrey Wheeler in his new book
> about the legal (and illegal) history of Columbia Records.*  It looks
> like four masters by Art Gillham beat the contract by a day, but he did