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Thanks George for sharing the rest of the article with us. I am curious regarding the record shown in Fig.2. You describe it as a pirate and with the Zon-O-Phone notch present on the reverse. Did it also have the UTM Co. lease agreement on the reverse like I showed in my previous post..?. Just curious...phonogfp wrote:Well, I wasn't going to scan the entire article since the question was concerning slightly later Zonophone records, but as long as we've backed up to the beginning, I'll add the first two images from the article, as well as the first page. You can double-click on any of these images to enlarge them.
Wayne, the cracked Universal record you show is only 3 catalog numbers from the one in Figure 3! (Both by the Zonophone Orchestra.)
By the way, the title of this article is A Band of Sound; The Basic Types of American Zonophone Records.
I just noticed that on the first page of the article, the year 1899 is mentioned a couple of times. I fear I was led astray 33 years ago by certain items published in The Phonoscope. By 1985, while researching for an article on Columbia's entry into the disc industry, I became convinced that Zonophone machines and records did not appear until spring 1900.
George P.
. I noticed that about my other record...only three numbers apart. The crack you see is actually from this shrinkage. This is also pressed from a brownish, soft material. You can see other cracks in the reverse pic I posted. Some record experts believe these records may have been experimental using this material. I mention in another thread, that these records appear to have been pressed in both this brown material and normal black shellac.
Clearly, this material did not hold up over time once cooled.
