THE PINK FLOYD 1st Record 2nd Stamper UK Arnold Layne 45 7" 1967 - 1/KT/R Vinyl
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Description
Pink Floyd - Arnold Layne / Candy And The Currant Bun.
An early pressing of the first ever Pink Floyd Vinyl Record.
EXCELLENT condition throughout...both sides vinyl, labels and Wavy Top Red Columbia Company Sleeve.
Just a tiny area of light ticks in the first 4 or five seconds on each side, otherwise the surfaces are superb.
Fantastic sound, this stamper combination was also used for some promo records.
Released on the 11th of March 1967,
This 7" Vinyl Record is one of the first Pink Floyd vinyl records ever pressed.
This record carries the matrix number for the First Father, the First Mother and Second Stampers of this record... that is the same on both sides.
A Side - 7XCA 27877-1 R 1 KT
B Side - 7XCA 27878-1 R 1 KT (Both stamped / solid center)
This same matrix and stamper combination has also been found with a factory sample sticker on the label, and also on some miss-pressed records that have Two A side labels.
Runout / Deadwax codes.
Number One (1) Mother code stamped at 9:00 (both sides)
KT Tax stamp at 12:00 (both sides - KT is also stamped on the B side label)
R Stamper Code at 3:00 (both sides)
Matrix 7XCA 27877-1 at 6:00 A Side
Matrix 7XCA 27878-1 at 6:00 B Side
The same Mother and Stamper codes on both sides.
This Matrix places this vinyl record well within the first 2000 Pink Floyd vinyl records ever pressed... probably within the first 1000.
EMI in the UK did not have a target amount of records per stamper, and would run the stamper to either early physical destruction, or in most cases, when the sound quality had depleted to an unacceptable level.
You could put this number at between 500 and 1000 records.
1000 would be an unlikely extreme.
In Japan, EMI did only press 500 records from each stamper.
In the UK this is hard to determine precisely, but a safe estimate would be around 500 to 750,
Record presses would apply as much as 150 tons of pressure and extreme heat to the stampers in the production process of one vinyl record, so the stamper life span was fairly short, and they could break after only a few presses, but mostly the stamper surfaces deplete (basically they go blunt) causing a lessening in sound quality.
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