1911 EMMY DESTINN Experiment LAMINATED ONE SIDED EDISON DD GIOCONDA SUICIDIO 78

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A series of great EDISON DIAMOND DISC recordings:

FIRST RECORDING ever from the pre-launch famous  EXPERIMENTAL 1910 - 1912 Preliminary TEST RECORDINGS for Diamond Disc:

Rare early ONE SIDED PRESSING     

QUIET LAMINATED PRESSING !

FIRST US RECORDING by Great EMMY DESTINN - Edison caught her,  and then  dropped her into the lap of first Columbia and then Victor

Condition:

EXCELLENT MINUS light scuffs plays E quiet loud and clear

No lamination issue

A CHOICE COPY

Musically, this recording takes advantage of the long duration of the DD - this is the most dramatically drawn out Suicidio that I know.

IN SHORT - a CHOICE RECORD none of the flaws have any effect on the recorded sound.

More about the EDISON DIamond Disc Trials from

During 1910û12, Edison engineers conducted numerous experimental disc recording sessionsùprimarily in London, and to a lesser extent in New York and Parisùusing eminent operatic singers. Thomas Edison reviewed the results closely.

The excerpts below were trancribed by Ray Wile from Edison's handwritten notes in the ENHS archive.

AINO ACKTE (mx. 871):
"Woman good singer, has only little tremolo... We can use this woman in future with soft accompt and good tunes." (5/6/1912)

ADELINA AGOSTINELLI (mx. 430):
"Her tremolo queers this song. Hold it." (5/8/1912)

GIOVANNI ALBANESE (mx. 1067):
"Don't care for him." (1912)

THOMAS CHALMERS (mx. 813):
"A non-tremolo singer." (2/13/1912)

EDUARDO DE BURY (mx. 469):
"Singer no good." (1912)

CHARLES HACKETT (mx. 1050):
"Hackett has a very variable voice, sharp in some notes soft in others, and nasty rapid tremolo." (1912)

HEINRICH HENSEL (mx. 549):
"Rotten. Never use this voice." (5/17/1912)

AGNES KIMBALL (mx. 852):
"This singer has too many glaring defects of voice." (1912)

HEINRICH KNOTE (mx. 634):
"Fine sustained tone, no tremolo... only wants proper accompt." (1912)

HEINRICH KNOTE (mx. 638):
"Singer goodùhas some tremolo but not highly conspicuous." (1912)

MARIA LABIA (mx. 861):
"Nip & tuck between Bori & Labia." (1912)

GIOVANNI MARTINELLI (mx. 1064):
"Good tenor has some tremolo and gutteral sounds but his high beats Caruso. He is a far better singer than Caruso is now." (1912)

GIOVANNI POLESE (mx. 494):
"Not as good as Chalmers." (1912)

GIOVANNI POLESE (mx. 987):
"Some opera perverts have probably got educated to this type of voice. The tune pulls him through." (5/22/1912)

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