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Here some people on that wavelength!

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Pretty cool idea. Kind of makes me thirsty.

There we have it. A new, plentiful source of cylinder blanks!

Clay

It's not clear what the record surface is, but it seems like it's either painted onto the bottle or it's a sheet of plastic material on the bottle. It's also not clear whether this was a one-off, but I presume it was. Why they bothered to do this just once is hard to figger. If they were gonna put it into production, what is the user supposed to play it on? And I can't imagine being able to actually mold glass with sufficient resolution to make an analog record. If it's a one-off, why not just pretend that they did it, do a CGI video with audio dub, and save themselves all the trouble of reinventing an analog recording head? I'm not sure I get it. But Beck's evidently spent some money futzing with it at least.

looks to me like they are cutting right on the glass, A diamond could do this nicely. It is obviously a regular stereo LP groove, as they said they wanted to record the bass and they had trouble doing that vertically (I haven NO trouble doing this.) It might be possible some on here heard my new hi-fi acoustically recorded cylinders at Union, and the new quiet surface blanks. In fact Don from Sights and Sounds of Edison, had them on display but collectors kept on picking them out of the box thinking they were original and fingering the recording surface up, (don't people know you are supposed to put 2 fingers spread inside the cylinder? They will now have to be shaved, so he put them away so they would not be ruined any farther. There was a nice selection of Brown wax at the show this year. Charley Hummel had a whole early 1890s case full.

Interesting: I remember having a dream about something like this some years ago…

Bill

Sidewinder wrote:Here some people on that wavelength!

http://www.highsnobiety.com/2013/06/15/ ... er-bottle/

I'd like mine with a nice dry red wine, please...

Tinkerbell wrote:

Sidewinder wrote:Here some people on that wavelength!

http://www.highsnobiety.com/2013/06/15/ ... er-bottle/

I'd like mine with a nice dry red wine, please...

Would that be the Concert Grand version?

HisMastersVoice wrote:

Tinkerbell wrote:

Sidewinder wrote:Here some people on that wavelength!

http://www.highsnobiety.com/2013/06/15/ ... er-bottle/

I'd like mine with a nice dry red wine, please...

Would that be the Concert Grand version?

But, of course!! I would settle for nothing less...

I tried to record on the contain I get my wine in, but the corners of the box made the stylus jump