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Klepsie 10th Oct 2013
| | Since I now own a deck that will play 78rpms I gave this curio a spin. Turns out there are two tracks each side, all unaccompanied piano; A1 sounds classical, the other three sound popular, but I recognise none of them. The pianist was a pretty decent player. |
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carryonsidney 20th Dec 2012
| | I have a 45rpm 7" audiodisc equivalent, they are acetates. Audiodisc supplied acetates to [USA] professional music studios generally, they seem to be very common in the 1950's & 60's and then stop?
I'm not sure but as I understand it, in the USA if you wanted to ensure your song was copy written you needed to record a demo of it, so you could 'register' the song?
As an aside, the 45 I have has had a studio label pasted over the Audio disc you can see it on 45cat here, on the b side which I didnt scan [whoops] its just the plain audiodisc label. Note the 2 holes in the disc, the 2nd hole isnt a 'cutout or deletion" punch, these discs are attached to the machine by 2 pegs when they are cutting the tune, ensures non slip I think. |
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Klepsie 18th Dec 2012
| | See also this item on 45cat... |
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Billy Two 4th Dec 2012
| | [record=nc798125uk]I've just added[/record] what I think is a similar disc i.e. it's lacquer on a metal base rather than shellac...an acetate. These were privately cut discs, often for home use but also for demonstration purposes. Somewhere (in the attic, to be precise) I have a disc my Grandad cut in the 1930's while he was singing with the BBC radio choir - he apparently had ambitions at one point of being a professional singer, and it was cut to punt round the industry.
I guess it's much the same practice that was still in operation well into the 70's, before cassette tapes became the easier cheaper option.. |
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Klepsie 4th Dec 2012
| | To my untutored eyes all 78s look like acetates in their feel and inflexibility!
There's something about this kind of disc here which suggests this is probably a home recording. |
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Dr Doom SUBS ● 4th Dec 2012
| | I've changed this to acetate but now I'm wondering if I should have left it.
Does the disc resemble an acetate?
I guess all audiodiscs are blanks? |
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Klepsie 4th Dec 2012
| | And here's the other 50% of my 78rpm collection, a mystery item for people to get their teeth into. As can be seen it's a 'recording blank' 78 with a pencilled title on one side (hard to read; "Charrington" could easily be "Chington" or a dozen other different names), and nothing at all on the other. Alas, I don't own a 78rpm deck, so I can't give any more clues other than to say that I found this in a US thrift store a while back priced at a quarter, couldn't bear to leave it behind, and had no end of faff getting it back to England in one piece... |
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