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Inside
the Edison Studios
Partial
blueprint plan of Edison's electrically equipped New York studio (5th Avenue & 29th Street),
October, 1928. Charles Edison's office and other adminstrative areas
were to the right (not shown).
Interior of the Columbia Street studio in West Orange, New Jersey, 1917. The West Orange studio was used primarily for experimental recording and dubbing, with most regular sessions assigned to the New York studio.
A
later view inside the Columbia Street studio, showing the acoustic
dubbing set-up (note the Diamond Disc reproducers and hand-cranked motor on the right). This was likely the
equipment that was used to dub Blue Amberol cylinders from discs. Low-speed disc-to-disc acoustic dubbing experiments were also conducted in West Orange as late as 1929.
Tenor John Young recording a cylinder
in the early 1900s, showing the cramped conditions and other concessions
necessitated by the acoustic recording process (note the horned Stroh
New York, in 1916. Cesare Sodero is the conductor. (Mainspring Press)
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