RECORDS 16, 33, 45, 78 rpm transfer to file: $35 per record.

Complete pricing below.

Records are flat circular disks with grooves in the surface used to reproduce sound and have a constant rotational speed.  Edison (New Jersey) is credited with developing the first sound reproduction ‘phonograph’ in 1877 by using a spiral grooved impression in a tin foil covered cylinder.  Bell (Washington D.C., New York) improved the cylinder by covering it with hard wax and called it a ‘graphophone’ in the 1887.  Berliner (Philadelphia) patented a flat record disc called a ‘gramophone’ in 1894 and commercialized it using the ‘Berliner Gramophone’ trademark.  Improvements to wax master recordings made records worthy of established musicians making opera, instrumental, and jazz recordings accessible to the public.  Early records quickly 'wore out' with multiple plays. Berliner formed the Victor Talking Machine Co. in 1901 as a result of lawsuits and developed the popular Victrola record player.  In 1929 part of Victor became the Japanese Victor Company (JVC) and the remainder merged with RCA (who was a major competitor in radio) becoming RCA Victor.  Record grooves have been made with various materials over the years including wax, phenolic, schellac, aulminum, and acetate.  And cores have been made from brittle phenolic, aluminum, cardboard, and (modern) vinyl.

PRICES:
TRANSFER 16, 33, 45rpm record to mp3 file: $40 per record. Records continued: 
By 1910 flat disk recordings were the most common form of sound recordings. Early records rotated at a speed of 78 to 80 rpm and the speed was not well controlled.  As electricity became accessible around 1925, a speed of 78.26 rpm was derived with gear reduction on a 3600-rpm electric motor and was adopted as the standard record speed.    Mechanical Acoustic recordings have the sound directed into a large funnel attached to a cutting stylus and played back with a stylus conducting sound into a large horn.  ‘Electrical Recording’ was introduced in 1925 and used a microphone and amplifier to drive the cutting stylus and played back through an amplifier into a speaker.  Records became known as “78s” to distinguish them from other emerging record speeds.  Records may have Vertically cut groves (height variations) or Lateral cut grooves (side to side); lateral cut groves are the most common.  The size of 78 records became standardized with a diameter of 25cm (10-inches, 3 minutes per side) or 30cm (12-inchs, 5 minutes per side).  The sound groove was recorded into shellac, lacquer, aluminum, or vinyl and disc cores made of hard rubber, resin (shellac, organic fillers, powdered slate, wax lubricant), aluminum, steel, cardboard, glass, or vinyl.  78 records were popular into the 1950s when higher quality 33-1/3 record formats became available.  Records of all types faded from use with the advent of magnetic tape recording in 1947 and the convenience of the audio cassette tape by 1980.

 

All transfers include material from both sides.
Audio files can be sent for Download, loaded onto Flash drive, or CD.
USB flash/ thumb drive (can hold many files): $10.
CD (80 minutes max) including labeling and case: $10.

Wilcox Gay Recordio 6.5-inch diameter, cardboard base material, 78rpm plays about 3 min per side.

Recordio, most are acetate over cardboard fiber (do not get wet/wash)
Wax over cardboard
Some 78 rpm have aluminum substrates
1940s- 1950s, most are acetate
Newer are Vinyl plastic