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Many of you were following Cody K's mission to fix the irregular speed on his C-19 Chippendale Diamond Disc. Well, he gave up and sold me the machine and its records. After quite a lot of effort, I too gave up(!), and basically combined parts of his motor and parts of another motor I had, and now it runs quite well and sounds pretty good too. I sent Cody a demo video of various discs and have cropped this out of that video. The Golden Gate Orch. plays "I'll Never Ask for More" on DD 52506 from March 1929, vocal by "Van". Anybody know who "Van" is?

Enjoy.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbdvd0act9g[/youtube]

Nice! "Van" is Walter van Brunt acc. to Wiles discography.

Valecnik wrote:Nice! "Van" is Walter van Brunt acc. to Wiles discography.

Thanks, Bruce. I would not have thought of Van Brunt, but now when I listen to it, clearly that's exactly who it is. I wonder why they only credited him as "Van"?

By this point his professional name was Walter Scanlon. Maybe there was something about not using that name for whatever reason.

J

Perhaps the inventor of the mononym, to be followed by Biance, Madonna, Usher, Prince...

Wow!! Thanks for posting this record. It's rare and it's good!! Wish I could find a copy!

marcapra wrote:Wow!! Thanks for posting this record. It's rare and it's good!! Which I could find a copy!

Thanks. This is currently the "latest" DD I own. I'm finding that the very late discs are recorded pretty well and sound great even with a regular (non-Edisonic) reproducer. I find the early Edison electrics kind of disappointing, but the sound quality on the late ones is pretty impressive. Edison also changed the formula for the recording surface at this point, so there's very little surface noise too.

52089 wrote:

marcapra wrote:Wow!! Thanks for posting this record. It's rare and it's good!! Which I could find a copy!

Thanks. This is currently the "latest" DD I own. I'm finding that the very late discs are recorded pretty well and sound great even with a regular (non-Edisonic) reproducer. I find the early Edison electrics kind of disappointing, but the sound quality on the late ones is pretty impressive. Edison also changed the formula for the recording surface at this point, so there's very little surface noise too.

I understand that the Edison studio first used a "home brewed" recording outfit, and later purchased cutters from RCA.

I love the Golden Gate Orchestra. Their DDs seem to be getting harder and harder to find at anything other than a very high price.

Clay