Ray Bay ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Stereo was invented in 1954 by the Fletcher boys...

Hello? Alan Blumlein invented a nethod of cutting stereo grooves into
records, which was patented by EMI in *1931*.  Stereo recordings were made
in 1932 and 1933 (Bell Labs and EMI) but 78s were too noisy for stereo to
be a viable proposition.

>but the first recording equipment generally available to put it on vinyl
>in a commercial way was in 1959...  there were stereo recordings and
>recording systems being tested in 1957 in preparation for the already
>planned commercial development...

And there were true stereo tape recordings made in German in 1944 (a
complete Emperor Concerto with IIRC Gieseking and the last movement of
Karajan's Bruckner 8).

>The reason I doubt it is the location and the setup that would have been
>required at Bayreuth which was fairly bureaucratic at the time

This is another matter entirely.

Deryk Barker
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