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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