Tables for those who bought the digital version of the book
Tables for The British Classical Music Industry, 1945 to 1959: Formats and Fidelity. Most eReaders have problems with tables including more than three columns, hence all pages including tables below being made available below as pdfs.
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| Table 1.pdf |
- Table I. Descriptions of records, formats and time-span considered in The Record Guide and each supplementary volume.
| Tables 2 & 3.pdf |
- Table II. Capacity per side by record format.
- Table III. Societies, plus distributors, the latter of which generally recorded and pressed the records.
| Tables 4 & 5.pdf |
- Table IV. Classical LP prefixes used by Nixa to identify specific company’s catalogue.
- Table V. EMI and Decca’s main 78 rpm catalogue sequences.
| Tables 6 & 7.pdf |
- Table VI. Decca’s 1950s LP sequences.
- Table VII. EMI’s mono LP sequences.
| Tables 8 to 10.pdf |
- Table VIII. EMI 7” SP sequences.
- Table IX. EMI monaural 7” EP sequences.
- Table X. Pye-Nixa and Philips classical EP sequences in order of first release.
| Tables 11 & 12.pdf |
- Table XI. EMI’s monaural tape sequences and equivalent LP sequences.
- Table XII. EMI’s stereophonic tape sequences and equivalent monaural LP sequences.
| Tables 13 & 14.pdf |
- Table XIII. The date that labels advised their first stereo classical vinyl record(s).
- Table XIV. Decca stereo sequences plus equivalent mono sequence.
| Table 15.pdf |
- Table XV. EMI stereo record sequences plus equivalent mono sequence.
| Table 16.pdf |
- Table XVI. Labels that released classical repertoire between 3 Sep. 1945 and 31 Dec. 1959 in order of first known classical release during the period.
| Tables 17 & 18.pdf |
- Table XVII. The first known release on each new format, irrespective of whether the first batch of releases included classical records or not.
- Table XVIII. Pre-decimal to decimal conversion table for all RRPs listed in the previous tables.
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