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Topic: 78RPM Microgroove Records

  28th Jul 2015, 9:57 PM
Break-In Master

Member since Dec 2013
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Jock_Girl wrote:
Jules,

I do see your point, albeit from my own somewhat typically weird POV, which I why I argued a while back against the inclusion of kiddie records (recommending a 'kiddie record word') and cylinders here in the 78s.

Cylinders and diamond discs are as incompatible as (in fact more so) as are the microgroove 78s.

To my eyes, it sounds like :rolleyes: you are essentially saying that only 78s from the 'golden age' (roughly 1960 outside the 3rd world) are the only ones that belong on the 78 site.

If you are going to use groove size as a gauge, the the Bell 78s of the 1950s no longer qualify, because even as 7 inch, being microgroove, they said on the label 'use lp stylus'

Nope -- the modern 78s belong here -- if only because they are a continuing tribute the beauty of a rapidly rotating record.

I'd say -- put 'em in both places!

Amy
Yes, Amy, and, what about all the vinyl 78's from the `50's and early `60's! Surely, they shouldn't be played with a steel needle (my dad said that if something went bad with his needle, he'd get one of his mom's sewing needles, cut off the tip and use that to play his records! That'd rip the hell out of any of those vinyl 78's!!)! I have a few promo 78's from the early 50's on RCA Victor that were pressed on a thin slab of vinyl!! They almost weigh less than a 45! I also have a 12" promo 78 from that era on red vinyl! If the stock copies on shellac belong here, why wouldn't the promo vinyl copies?


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