What gives Ken Maynard's test pressings he donated before he passed away significance, is they all bear the hand-etched "W" (Western Electric) and the "LA" for Los Angeles.The hand etched numbers and marks are definitive proof of his historical direct technical connection and early experimentation with sound along side western electric. I personally understand,because I am the one who found them!. So that's why I don't know how to share what is now in a re-digitalized collection. Aaron Smithers Folklorist(Special Collections Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
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