10” Berliner GC-22519 “Kavatina” from the Opera “The Mermaid” Leonid Sobinov 

The mold is made so as soon as I have time to make one. It usually takes 2 - 6 weeks.

@@DonWilsonLabs no I mean when the original berliner was made

@@CPorter Sobinov's first 10" recordings date from June 1901.

Thank you!

Good question about the distortion. The original was independently graded as E condition, and certainly looked it. I had not played the original but will upload a proper transfer of the first copy I made (as a backup for when the mold fails). We can then compare the backup copy to the upload on Russian-Records (though I'm not as experienced with audio restoration software as whoever uploaded that copy).

Hi Sebastian, I do sell copies of this disc and ~200 other Berliners, but I don't think any others are Russian. You can email me at doninphilly@gmail.com for a list.

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Most will work but you need to rewire the cartridge to switch it to mono. Shure M44 is good, my choice is an Ortofon OM (for the budget concious).

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