EMG/Expert historic tuning record.

[emgcr]

Here is a link to an unusual record which was owned and used by David Phillips to set up and fine-tune soundboxes. He was very highly regarded in relation to everything to do with soundboxes and the development of the technology surrounding them. Frank James, the celebrated author of "The E.M.G. Story", kindly gave me the record a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS8_TpLgB2c

[Orchorsol]

I'm so glad you uploaded this amazing piece of history Graham - it's quite something to listen to the very disc on which countless soundboxes were tuned by the master back in the day! Many thanks!

[old country chemist]

Hi Graham- many thanks for putting the record on "youtube" I must look out for a copy of that disc! A recording to make the room shake!
I had a feeling that Frank, years ago, told me that on of the firms used an orchestral version of one of the Gilbert and Sullivan tunes.
This my testing record. I have used it over the years, and I am on my third copy of it! It is-

HIS MASTER'S VOICE RECORD No C 2861. "ENTRY OF THE BOYARDS" -March. (Halvorsen) played by the Boston Promenade Orch. cond. by Arthur Fiedler.
Being an American recording, it is full bodied, loud, but also contains some quiet passages with solo instrumentation. I think that when it was originally reviewed in "The Gramophone" magazine in the 1930s, the reviewer said it broke the point off of his needle!
Another record which I own that Philip Knighton used for soundbox testing is Bosworth record of "At the Circus-The Menage riders " (Armandola)
This is, like most Bosworth discs recorded after Decca, by H.M.V. A full bodied orchestral record.