Very Rare records Described No 1 "1905 Pathe Disque " The first Pathe Disc Records

Here is one of the first Disque Pathe records made in 1905 for a short time - a composition base with a printed label on the back and a recording in Cylinder Wax on the front with an impressed title sprayed over with Gold paint ! the Wax surface of the recording deteriorates with age due to the bitumen content - the grooves are very fine - as fine as a cylinder recording thus the first pathe disque reproducers were basically adapted Cylinder reproducers BEFORE they used the ball styli that most pathe recordings employ read more Here at the Only Engish language Gramophone forum in the World http://gramophone-collecting.co.uk/forum/index.php