General Information

Serial #

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Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

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Patents

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General Description

Vinyl record stored inside a protective cardboard sleeve. Disque en vinyle stocké à l'intérieur du pochette en carton protecteur.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

30.0 cm

Width

30.0 cm

Height

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Thickness

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Weight

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Diameter

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Volume

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Lexicon

Group

Mining and Metallurgy

Category

Sound

Sub-Category

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Manufacturer

AKA

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Country

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State/Province

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City

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Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

Unknown

Canada

The Dofasco Male Chorus, founded in 1945, comprised entirely of employees of the "Dominion Foundries and Steel Company Limited", (Dofasco) Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The chorus has been going for more than 60 years. La chorale DOFASCO, fondé en 1945, est compris entièrement des employés du "Dominion Foundries and Steel Company Limited", (Dofasco) à Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. La chorale est encore active et existe au-dessus de 60 ans.

Function

A vinyl record is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat polyvinyl chloride disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc. Un disque vinyle est un support de stockage sonore analogique sous la forme d'un disque plat en chlorure de polyvinyle avec une rainure en spirale modulée inscrite. La rainure commence généralement près de la périphérie et se termine près du centre du disque.

Technical

The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction until late in the 20th century. It had co-existed with the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s and replaced it by the late 1920s. By the 1980s, digital media in the form of CDs and DVDs had gained a larger market share, and the vinyl record left the mainstream in the early 1990s. Le disque de phonographe était le milieu primaire utilisé pour la reproduction de musique jusqu'à la fin du 20e siècle. Il co-existait avec les cylindres phonographes des années 1880 et remplacé vers la fin des années 1920. À partir des années1980, les formes médias numérique comme les CDs et DVD ont augmenté en popularité et les disques vinyle n'était pas considéré courant dominant au début des années 1990s.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On side 1 : " RCA VICTOR /. CANADA INTERNATIONAL /. RECORDED IN CANADA /. PCS 1011 /. (10RPRS-1451) /. 1 /. STEREO /. DYNAGROOVE /. RECORDING /. MEN OF STEEL /. 1 - I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT /. (LERNER - LOEWE) /. 2 - AUTUMN LEAVES /. (KOZMA - MERCER - PREVERT) /. 3 - THE ERIE CANAL (TRAD. - ARR: TOM SCOTT) /. 4 - BATTLE HYMN (TRAD. - ARR.: RINGWALD) /. 5 - LULLABY (TRADITIONAL) /. 6 - CLIMB EVERY MOUNTAIN /. (RODGERS - HAMMERSTEIN II) /. THE DOFASCO MALE CHORUS /. LIVING STEREO DYNAGROVE LIVING STEREO /. MADE IN CANADA BY RCA VICTOR COMPANY, LTD., MONTREAL - COPYRIGHTED. " On side 2: " RCA VICTOR /. CANADA INTERNATIONAL /. RECORDED IN CANADA /. PCS 1011 /. (10RPRS-1451) /. 2 /. STEREO /. DYNAGROOVE /. RECORDING /. MEN OF STEEL /. 1 - VALE OF TUONI (SIBELIUS) /. 2 - TRAMP ALONG (TRADITIONAL) /. 3 - MY CHOSEN KING (BACH - ARR.: DICKINSON /. 4 - AN ERISKAY LOVE LILT (KENNEDY - ROBERTSON) /. 5 - THE OLD ARK (TRADITIONAL) /. 6- NO MAN IS AN ISLAND (TRADITIONAL - ARR.: RINGWALD) /. 7- THE LORD'S PRAYER (SAUNDERS) /. THE DOFASCO MAL CHORUS /. LIVING STEREO DYNAGROVE LIVING STEREO /. MADE IN CANADA BY RCA VICTOR COMPANY, LTD., MONTREAL - COPYRIGHTED. "

Missing

None apparent

Finish

Black vinyl "12 record stored inside cardboard sleeve. Sleeve has black, red and blue text. Disque noire vinyle "12 stocké à l'intérieur d'une pochette en carton. La pochette a du texte noir, rouge et bleu.

Decoration

Front of the record sleeve presumably has an image of the Hamilton DOFASCO plant, an image of the DOFASCO male chorus and a depictions of the operations inside a foundry.