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(this is a handbook that caters for many 1950s
constructions of gramophones. British edition.
Originally from Gernsback Publishing in the
US)
[6] Several papers in the Journal of the Audio
Engineering Society Vol. 25, No. 10-11,
October 1977 (”Centennial Issue”) as follows:
J.C. Ruda: Record Manufacturing: Making
the Sound for Everyone, pp. 702-711
L.S. Burt: Chemical Technology in the
Edison Recording Industry, pp. 712-717
S.K.Khanna: Vinyl Compound for the
Phonographic Industry, pp. 724-728
J.H. Kogen: Record Changers, Turntables,
and Tone Arms–A Brief Technical History, pp.
749-758
[7] Erling Benner Larsen: Electrotyping,
Copenhagen: School of Conservation, Royal
Danish Academy for Fine Art 1984
(a modern and very detailled reference work in
the field)
[8] George Brock-Nannestad: The EMI recording
machines, in particular in the 1930s and 40s,
The Historic Record & AV Collector No. 43,
pp. 33-38, April 1997.
(using archive material and inspection of
surviving artefacts, it is pointed out how the
commercial records themselves can identify
precisely the type of recording machine used)
[9] George Brock-Nannestad: “The Objective
Basis for the Production of High Quality
Transfers from Pre-1925 Sound Recordings”,
AES Preprint No. 4610, 103nd Convention
1997 September 26-29, New York.
(despite the title the preprint contains a
wealth of detail on acoustical sound recording
and record production. Very much archival
material is quoted)
[10] Eric L. Reiss: The Compleat Talking Machine.
A Collector’s Guide To Antique Phonographs,
Chandler, Arizona: Sonoran Publishing LLC
1998 (Third edition)
(this is a handbook covering both cylinder and
disc phonographs (gramophones) and their
repair and restoration)
126
[11] Andrew Emmerson: Electronic Classics.
Collecting, Restoration and Repair, Oxford:
Newnes 1998
(a good introduction to the electronics
involved in modern electronic equipment,
using valves (electronic tubes) and transistors,
and their artefact status)
[12] George Brock-Nannestad: The Rationale
Behind Operational Conservation Theory,
in ‘Conservation without limits - IIC Nordic
Group XV Congress’, Ed. R. Koskivirta,
Helsinki 23-26 August, 2000, pp. 21-33.
(the information content and structure in
an object is both of a scientific and of a
perception nature. The balance between the
two types changes over the service life of
the object. Systematic information analysis
provides a firm background for responsible
decisions on preservation and restoration)
[13] George Brock-Nannestad: How is discography
related to the physical object, paper presented
at the seminar ”Dokumentation av 78varvsepoken
i Skandinavien”, arranged at
the Swedish Ljud- och Bildarkivet SLBA,
Stockholm 12-13 February 2005. 6pp.
(the physical object the disc record carries
a number of very distinct marks that are
related to the manufacturing process. The
paper provides a sequence of steps in the
manufacture and an alphabetical list of the
terms used for identifying the steps; describing
and classifying the markings)
[14] George Brock-Nannestad: The Development
of Recording Technologies, in Cambridge
Companion to Recorded Music, Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming 2009.
[15] Cleaning and restoration of shellac records
under the stereo microscope was taught at
the School of Conservation in Copenhagen
1991-98 by the present author as an exercise in
fine-motor manipulation. This formed part of
courses in Media for Sound, Moving Images,
and Data.