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Excellent Larry Scully / Bert Whyte interview from AUDIO 1969

Download the complete 5-page Bert Whtye interview of Larry Scully from the 11.69 issue if AUDIO:

DOWNLOAD: LarryScully_BertWhyte_Interview_AUDIO_1169

As longtime PS dot com readers know, we are based in Bridgeport CT, former home of Scully. Scully was America’s leading manufacturer of Lathes for cutting LP masters; only Neumann lathes offered any real competition in terms of quality. Starting in 1962, with the aid of former PRESTO engineers, Scully also began manufacturing high-quality tape machines in a variety of formats. I had a Scully 1″ 8-track machine recently and it was a marvel of engineering; the sound quality was absolutely astonishing. In this article, L Scully describes his father’s start at Columbia Records (also based in Bridgeport in the early 20th century), their movement the manufacture of professional tape machines, ETC. Great piece of history.

There is a plethora of Scully, Columbia/Bridgeport, and Bert Whyte material elsewhere on this site; just use the search box.

Today: From “Easy Guide To Stereo HiFi,” 1964, ed. Robert Mayfield: a short pictorial on the subject of ‘How a record is made.’ Nothing too exciting here; I am reproducing this primarily because the plant shown in the article is none other than the Bridgeport, CT Columbia Records plant. As I’ve mentioned before, this building is still standing; it is now ‘loft condos.’ The BPT Columbia plant was, AFAIK, the first facility in the world to manufacture 33rpm LP records; SCULLY, America’s top manufacturer of LP cutting lathes, was located a dozen blocks away, along the same train tracks that today still serve commuters, dotted with idled freight cars resting on derelict short-ends of tracks strewn throughout the East End.