Rare gramophones-radiograms-records

[ANILKUMAR]

Some of great L. Subramaniam's LPs I do have

 

[Hiten]

That Lakshmi Shankar Vinyl (with other two stalwarts) has very good recording, if not the best. The music is best ofcourse.

 

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I don't know which word will be the best to praise you. What you have shared here is simply mind blowing. You have opened an important page of history. The HMV did have a good relationship with Kolkata. In Dumdum stable of the HMV many treasures were born during the hay day of record player. The newsletter that you have given here reveals the two revered Bengali singers, Tarun Banerjee and Konika Banerjee whom we , the people of Bengal admire .The recording of Tagore's masterpiece Kaalmrigaya at the Dumdum studio of HMV ..,.. just spell binding.kudos to your endeavour to present a glimpse of history.
Regards

spelling shall be Kanika

 

[KUTTYJASKAR]

Hello Mr. Jaskar, Greetings. I donot remember exactly when and from where I got this reord. Hope it was from Babu of Pammal.
I donot have an extra copy to share. Such old ones,just happen to fall in hands ... Anyway I will put your request in mind and if I get to come across any such old one will let you know.

Thank you. Will you please share the audio? 9443194846

 

[A K Bhattacharjee]

A few of my favorite shellac records, that I have.

 

[ANILKUMAR]

I happen to see the movie "RRR" recently and one frame caught my attention a bit deeper... the below one(see the highlighted portion in blue)


That board, which reads "Vicrolas" and Victor Records W.S. STRUVE BLOOMBER WIS.
Happy to see and one should appreciate the kind of Research they have done and detailed property Making of the Art department of the movie.

Now is it a Fact? I have no idea. The research team might have got the reference from some old photo.
My understating on the below might be wrong.....just my view...
The movie revolves around the era of British rule and Victrola is a American Company and "Victrolas W.S. STURVE" were the dealers in US.
May be they had a presence in India and Britishers would have allowed them to sell directly.
Out of my own interest I glanced through "The Gramophone Company's First Indian Recording 1899-1907" Michael Kinnear's book and could not find any reference.
Any way very happy to see that board in the Movie.
JFYI. Below is the Original U.S. Dealer's board.

 

[ANILKUMAR]

Thanks to hackaday.com.

BOOTING A PC FROM VINYL FOR A WARMER, RICHER OS

LASER CUT YOUR OWN VINYL RECORDS

 

[ANILKUMAR]

If you are using the "Zero Dust" to clean the dust off your stylus, seems like, better not to use it any further on some needles.
Refer : Time to Put Away The Onzow ZeroDust? https://www.analogplanet.com/content/time-put-away-onzow-zerodust

I just use a brush with very soft bristles and a air blower....to clean the neddles.

 

[ANILKUMAR]

After a loooong hiatus, making a post.
Not much addition to my record collections, in between, expect buying few Malayalm LPs.

Now, a new addition to my family of gears....

AKAI GX 77 Spool tape player and recorder in good condition.

Track system: auto reverse, 4-track, 2-channel, stereo system

Heads: 2 x GX record, 2 x GX playback, 2 x erase

Motor: 2 x reel drive, 1 x capstan

Reel size: up to 7 inch reel

Tape speeds: 3 3⁄4 7 1⁄2 ips

 

[ANILKUMAR]

Command Record [RS 33 855] - Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters Sing Pop Music of Leonard Bernstein - Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters [1963]

My copy is the first edition(only a few copied produced), which is not Stereo. Later they released the same record in Stereo with a different catalog no[RS 4T 855]. .

• 35mm magnetic film
  35mm magnetic film was used in the recording industry to produce heads that sent signals to the final master disk recording. The film was perforated and could be used with a three-track reproduce head and a variable record head. Everest Records pioneered the use of 35mm magnetic film in 1959, but the process was discontinued due to the high cost and improvements in standard tape technology. Some 35mm masters from Mercury, Everest, and Command Classics were reissued on CD in the 1990s.
  
  
  
• Command Classics
  Command Classics is a company that received 35mm equipment from Everest Records when the company moved to Hollywood in 1961. Some Command Classics 35mm masters were later reissued on CD by MCA Classics.

 

[mahaaprasaad]

Label:The National Gramophone Record Manufacturing Company Ltd. " Bombay, India Gramophones,Madras, "nation's voice", "Young India"
Catalog No: RSP 1135
Title : Samara Nowka (First Kanada Film, remade in Tamil)
Year : 1948
Artist : Tangutoori Suryakumari (Songs:Raghupathi Raghava Raja Ram and Vaishnava Janatho)

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The spelling is Samsara Nouka/Nowka..Kannada..... one of the initial mile stone in Kannada Cinima industry and first social drama ( and might be in south indian cinema).

Samsara Nowka (1948)

B. R. Panthulu, T. R. Ramachandran, Trichur Premavathi, T. Suryakumari, M. J. Andal, T. R. Upendra

www.thehindu.com

Thanks for sharing, and acquiring the rare gem

 

[ANILKUMAR]

new spool tape with mal songs-test runhttps://d1binhqz749h51.cloudfront.net/Spool-mal.mp4

 

[ANILKUMAR]

In the middle of self servicing my very old spool player( With the family since 1976)

https://vimeo.com/1009898901?share=copy#t=0

https://vimeo.com/1009899121?share=copy#t=0

https://vimeo.com/1009898972?share=copy

 

[ANILKUMAR]

A tribute to legendary composer John Williams by Disney Films.
Starwars OST: 2-LP with 3D spacecraft holograms
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