[Dixielandjazz] The first Stereo

[Scott Anthony]

Would whoever posted the "history" of recording media/industry/inventions 
please resend it to me offline. I inadvertently deleted it and would like 
permission to edit and use it in the upcoming issue of the San Francisco 
Traditional Jazz Foundation quarterly publication. I'll even send copies 
(and a membership application!)

Scott Anthony

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hildebrandt" <whildebrandt at att.net>
To: <santh at comcast.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 1:57 PM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] The first Stereo


> According to "From Tinfoil to Stereo" by Oliver Read & Walter L Welch, 
> 1959, the Columbia Phonograph Company offered the Multiplex Graphophone 
> Grand for $1000.00, including 3 recording heads, 3 reproducing heads, 1 
> triple horn stand, three 56 inch brass horns, 12 Multiplex Grand records, 
> 6 multiplex grand blanks. This was a cylinder machine and the 3 horns 
> would record three tracks simultaneously, and the spacing and lengths of 
> the directional horns indicate that a stereophonic playback would be 
> reproduced.  The machine was made in either 1898 or 1899. The development 
> was not recognized at the time as "stereo". (Incidently, this was the 
> first time the term "multiplex" was used in connection with sound.)
> I would attach a repro of the advertisement for this machine but I don't 
> believe the List allows it.
>
> Bill Hildebrandt
> The New Farmington River Ragtime Ramblers
> Simsbury, CT
>
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