[Phono-L] Wikipedia errors

Jim Nichol jnichol at fuse.net
Sun Aug 5 19:58:44 PDT 2007


Does anyone know who wrote the Wikepedia article below? There are  
serious errors in the section called Hard Plastic Replaces Wax.  It  
says that an Amberol is a PLASTIC cylinder, and that Edison started  
using 4-minute recordings only "around  the same time" as the  
Amberol. I also found it interesting that Amberols have plaster  
cores. And that not all Amberols are 4-minute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph_cylinder

Jim Nichol



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