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14th Jul 2018, 8:32 AM
	mojofilter Member since Jul 2012 1434 Points	A bit of information I have never read about in all the literature I've read on the manufacture of records concerns the duplication of gramophone records. These were made before electricity and stamping records made by electroplating, So how many copies of the same record were made, so there could be boxes of the same record to ship all over the country? I have a fair number of acoustic gramophone records, but not more than one copy of each. I discovered that one of the titles I have had been compiled on a CD. You could listen to 30 seconds of the track on the webpage. It turned out to be a completely different performance, although it was listed as being from a record with the same catalogue number as mine. Same band, same song, seemingly the same day, different take. This raises the questions, are there all kinds of records that have the same catalogue number but are different takes? If so, would this be because the master disc had to be played enough times to copy it disc-to-disc acoustically that it wore out and they'd have to record the song again? Are there multiple copies of the same take that sound progressively worse, from excellent to fair due to the number of times the master disc was played? I have always wondered this, and I hope someone here can answer my questions, or point me to a website where I may read about the process.