16-inch TRANSCRIPTION Disk: $45
16-inch TRANSCRIPTION disk transfer to file: $45 each. Complete pricing below.Transcription Disks (Electronic Transcription (ET), “platter”) are grooved audio recordings on 16-inch diameter records developed by Jewett (Western Electric Chicago, New York). They were developed for radio broadcast and were in use from the 1920s through 1960s. Transcription Disks were used to record original radio programming and copies shared between affiliated radio stations for broadcast or purchased by others. Programming included religious, music, drama, and entertainment. The first radio broadcast was a 1906 Christmas concert to commercial sea borne vessels in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea. The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA in 1920. Transcription disks play at a speed of 33-1/3rpm for up to 20 minutes per side; some transcription disks play from the center outwards. Sound grooves are cut into a coating of shellac, black cellulose nitrate, or vinyl (poly vinyl chloride) over cores made of aluminum, glass, or vinyl (vinyl used after 1940).
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TRANSFER TRANSCRIPTION record to mp3 file: $45 per record.