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Folks,

I forgot to mention I've also started a record-related glossary in the Label Guide. I wrote the definitions myself so please be kind in your corrections! Please feel free to submit corrections and additions.

Thank you.

Regards,
John

Thank you John, Great! This is a real improvement. I've been collecting for a long time but more on the machine side, and the meaning of many of these terms are not so clear to me!

Valecnik,

Thanks-we've got a long way to go and I still need to double check a few of those. I'm sure we'll be adding many more entries as we go.

Regards,
John

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Eric,

You can either e-mail them directly to me at Columbia "at" talkingmachine "dot" info. or contact our "Chief Engineer" David (Mordeth) for information on it. Thanks so much!!!!!!!

Regards,
John

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Eric,

Great! Thank you.

Regards,
John

John,

I have a couple labels that aren't represented here, can I just email a scan or pic to you? Also (and this may be a stupid question), why isn't the biggest of them all, Victor, represented in your guide?

Thanks,

Gary

I took a look at your glossary, and can only offer one suggestion. In my years of looking, I've not found a Columbia 78 rpm record made after about 1908 that WASN'T laminated. The materials changed over the years, but all the way into the 1950s, they continued to laminate their records.