From the moment the sound waves are cut into the receptive wax, until the familiar black dise is ready for the consumer, only the best engineers fare entrusted with the business of caring for the precious bit of wax which becomes the base for the Master Record. The latter, most valuable since it immortalizes the exact sound waves of the original music, cannot be replaced should the artist die or choose to leave China for international triumphs.
To accomplish a gold record is re-natively simple, miraculous sounds-—and not extravagant despite the suggestion of opulence a gold recording implies—for the gold, im~ measurably thin, is precipitated upon the wax by 'a process of plat. Ing which atomizes the gold and deposits it on the face of the wax disc. A long copper bath deposits a plate on the back of the gold. the wax separates from st, and a gleaming dise confronts the singer who chooses to discover how her voice is NE. Herald" Photo,
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