[NJARC] Howard H. Scott, a Developer of the LP

[Al Klase]

Interesting, but not to be confused with H. H. Scott hi-fi equipment.  
That was the work of *Hermon Hosmer Scott*, basically in the same time 
frame. - Al

On 10/8/2012 5:59 AM, David Sica wrote:
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> I especially liked the story about how they transferred long pieces of
> music from multiple 78s to the new LPs.
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> Howard H. Scott, a Developer of the LP, Dies at 92
> By BEN SISARIO
> Published: October 6, 2012
> The New York Times
>
> Howard H. Scott, who was part of the team at Columbia Records that
> introduced the long-playing vinyl record in 1948 before going on to produce
> albums with the New York Philharmonic, Glenn Gould, Isaac Stern and many
> other giants of classical music, died on Sept. 22 in Reading, Pa. He was 92.
>
> The cause was cancer, said his daughter, Andrea K. Scott.
>
> In 1946, Mr. Scott was 26 and just discharged from the Army when he got a
> job at Columbia Masterworks, the label’s classical division. He was soon
>
> assigned to Columbia’s top-secret project: developing a long-playing record
> to replace the 78 r.p.m. disc, which could hold only about four minutes of
>
> music on each brittle shellac side.
>
> The project had begun in 1940 and was nearing completion. But its engineers
> needed someone with musical training — particularly the ability to read
> orchestral scores — to help transfer recordings from 78s to the new discs,
> which played at 331/3 r.p.m., could hold about 22 minutes a side and were
> made of more durable vinyl.
>
> Howard Hillison Scott fit the bill.
>
> Born in Bridgeport, Conn., on May 31, 1920, he graduated from the Eastman
> School of Music in 1941 and had just begun graduate piano studies at
> Juilliard when he was drafted the next year. Back in civilian life in July
>
> 1946, he was hired by Columbia as a trainee.
>
> In the days before magnetic tape came into wide use, the process of
> transferring music to the new discs (soon to be known as LPs) was complex.
>
> Long pieces of music, split among multiple 78 r.p.m. records, needed to be
>
> stitched together on the new discs without interruption.
>
> To do that, Mr. Scott and his colleagues lined up overlapping segments of
> music on 78s, and — with Mr. Scott snapping his finger in coordination —
> switched the audio signal at just the right moment from one turntable to
> the other. As the industry began to use magnetic tape, beginning in the
> late 1940s, such work was no longer necessary.
>
> As a staff producer at Columbia, Mr. Scott worked on hundreds of recordings
> by most of the major orchestras of the United States, including those of
> Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati in addition to
> the New York Philharmonic. He had a particularly close association with
> Gould, beginning with his historic recording of Bach’s “Goldberg”
> Variations in 1955.
>
> Mr. Scott left Columbia in 1961 and worked at MGM Records, RCA Red Seal,
> the publisher G. Schirmer and the Rochester Philharmonic, where he was
> executive manager in the 1970s. He won a 1966 Grammy Award as the producer
>
> of the classical album of the year: Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 1,
> performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Morton Gould conducting, on
> RCA Red Seal.
>
> > From 1986 until his retirement in 1993, Mr. Scott worked for Sony,
> Columbia’s corporate successor, as a producer, once again transferring old
> albums to a new format: the CD.
>
> In addition to his daughter, Mr. Scott is survived by a son, Jon; two
> sisters, Carol Ruth Shepherd and Elaine Silver; and two granddaughters.
>
> In a 1998 interview with The New York Times, on the 50th anniversary of the
> introduction of the LP, Mr. Scott remarked about the durability of the
> format, and took note of a small renaissance taking root at the time.
>
> “They lived from 1948 to 1978, when the CD came in,” he said. “Now they’re
> coming back. Small companies are issuing them. I’m still an LP fan.”
>
>
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