Silvatone andCairns Morrison Discs
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2024 12:03 pm
Afternoon,
I have recently acquired some Silvatone and Cairns Morrison records which are home recorded 8 inch aluminium discs produced by Cairns Morrison ltd of Percy street London and bear either a Cairns Morrison or silvatone label.
There is hardly legible pencilled writing on the labels but at least one is dated 1937. The silvatone discs are slightly thicker than the Cairns Morrison and the label states "use fibre needle only".
Has anyone else come across these before ? as a domestic recording there is not a lot of information about them available.
As I have yet to get any fibre needles I have tried playing partially damaged discs on a (cheapo) modern multi speed player with the generic Chinese cartridge trusting the light weight arm would be ok, side one played ok and side 2 skipped.
There is much surface noise but the tracks ( much like an LP) included whistling, enthusiastic piano playing, and a big band of the era. so possibly the source was a home microphone and a radio output.
So apart from fitting some fibre needles to a HMV 101 any ideas please on the best non destructive way to hear these.
I have recently acquired some Silvatone and Cairns Morrison records which are home recorded 8 inch aluminium discs produced by Cairns Morrison ltd of Percy street London and bear either a Cairns Morrison or silvatone label.
There is hardly legible pencilled writing on the labels but at least one is dated 1937. The silvatone discs are slightly thicker than the Cairns Morrison and the label states "use fibre needle only".
Has anyone else come across these before ? as a domestic recording there is not a lot of information about them available.
As I have yet to get any fibre needles I have tried playing partially damaged discs on a (cheapo) modern multi speed player with the generic Chinese cartridge trusting the light weight arm would be ok, side one played ok and side 2 skipped.
There is much surface noise but the tracks ( much like an LP) included whistling, enthusiastic piano playing, and a big band of the era. so possibly the source was a home microphone and a radio output.
So apart from fitting some fibre needles to a HMV 101 any ideas please on the best non destructive way to hear these.