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Mainspring Label Gallery / Photos adapted from ARLIE

OPERAPHONE
(1915 - 1921)


Few labels went through as many transformations as John Fletcher's Operaphone. Shown above are just a few variations (top row): a 1915 fine-groove vertical-cut 5" disc with etched label and a 1917 fine-groove vertical-cut 7" disc; (bottom row): a 1918 steel-needle vertical cut 10" disc, and a 1920 universal-cut disc playable on either vertical or lateral machines. The latter two examples were pressed from Pathé cylinder masters transcribed by the pantograph, which allowed the master cylinders that were used as the basis for all Path´ disc recordings to be transferred to a wide array of disc formats.

 For the full story of Operaphone and the other Fletcher labels, see
John Fletcher: From Sousa's Band to Black Swan and Beyond
in the Mainspring Online Journal.

© 2000 by Mainspring Press. Label photos © 2000 by Kurt R. Nauck III. All rights reserved. No portion of thismaterial may be reproduced without prior written consent of the copyright holder(s).

 

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