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Columbia recording session.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 4:57 am
by epigramophone
Sir Henry Wood, founder of the "Proms", conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra for Columbia :
Re: Columbia recording session.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 2:27 pm
by Wolfe
That's the E.M.I. studio at Abbey Road in London.
What is that thing-ding down in front ? Playback speaker ?
Re: Columbia recording session.
Posted: Sat May 09, 2020 2:59 pm
by drh
Great photo--thanks for posting it!
Now, if only Columbia, in reaching the highest point in musical evolution, could have gotten its cutting lathes to run at a constant speed...
Re: Columbia recording session.
Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 11:56 pm
by Governor Flyball
The Gramophone Company and Columbia UK merged in 1931 to form EMI. It was at that time the Gramophone Company opened their Abbey Road Studio. Columbia left the Petty France facility where Henry Wood made his earloer recordings and must have hence forth recorded at Abbey Road.