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Record Title First Component Series Stereo Test Record
StereoDisc: FCS 50,000

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Side 1 - The Tests

Metronome 1000 Cycles Per Second Sine-Wave Test Tone 25 Seconds of Silence
High Frequency Sine Wave Test Tones Low Frequency Sine Wave Test Tones Sweep Test Tone - 70 to 15 Cycles
Phasing Musicians "A" - 440 Cycles Per Second, U.S. Government Standard 3000 Cycles Left Channel, 800 Cycles Right Channel

800 Cycles Left Channel, 3000 Cycles Right Channel

Side 2 - The Music, performed by the Virtuoso Symphony of London

Rakoczy March March From "Aida" Polovetzian Dances
March From Coq d' Or Russian Sailor's Dance  

Credits - none

Oddities This LP is unusual in the sense that Side 1 of this LP is mastered in such a way that you will need (in order to go from test to test) to move the pickup arm and place it at the start of the next track. In effect, Side one has TEN grooves instead of one
Copyrighted 1959
Bruce's Notes This is a test record, pure and simple, with side one containing the tests (see oddities for the unusual mastering) and side 2 containing selected tracks from the Virtuoso Symphony of London, culled from other LPs in the series.


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