[Phono-L] Edison 50741 test pressing

Gpaul2000 at aol.com Gpaul2000 at aol.com
Tue Sep 19 17:29:49 PDT 2006


Robert:
Since your pressing has no label of any kind, I'd presume that it was a test 
pressing rather than a reject; a rejected regular pressing would have a label. 
 I'm really not making any blanket assertions as to Tone Test disc 
characteristics.  After April 1921 I'd presume that Tone Test records would have paper 
labels like the rest.  I noticed nothing unusual about my discs except the 
unground edges.  I don't know for sure if any Tone Test records were made up with 
the same selection on both sides, but such a configuration would make more 
sense for a test record - used to determine which take was preferable.  What 
little I THINK I know about Tone Test records has been learned in the Wile book 
and Ron Dethlefson's books and my own limited observations.  I haven't seen 
anything written about them elsewhere.

George Paul



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