RECORD
Dimensions0.5 x 25 cm
Object numberHF.74.110.2
DescriptionThick disc record with central hole for a phonograph spindle. Each side has a song from Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Il Travotore ('The Troubadour'). Each side of the disc has a narrow blank band around the outside edge, then a closely grooved, much wider band, and then another blank band. Around the middle of the disc is a label band, identifying the music and the artist, as well as the publishing company. On the label band on each side there are three slight indentations, perhaps to help disc fit more snugly on turntable. There is also a semi-oval pattern ring around "label" band. There is a portrait of Thomas A. Edison etched into the escutcheon on the label band. Collections
