45worlds Forum - View Single Post - What is your background in 78rpm records? How did you come to collect 78rpm records?

13th Aug 2017, 8:11 AM
	xiphophilos Member since Dec 2013 3351 Points Moderator	One of my dad's old school friends had an old gramophone and a number of records that fascinated me when my family visited him in the 1970s. So when I saw my first 78 on a flea market in Germany (Glenn Miller's American Patrol and Moonlight Serenade on HMV), I bought it even though I had nothing to play it with. A few months later, I spent far too much money on my first table top gramophone so that I could finally listen to the handful of 78s that I had purchased in the meantime. I brought that gramophone and about 200 shellacs, most of them acquired on a visit to the US, with me when I moved there permanently in the 1990s. I started collecting more seriously only 4 years ago. Nowadays, however, I usually play my 78s on more modern machines that won't wear them out. And yes, storage is already a problem. I need to get rid of some records before I acquire any more. Edited by moderator on 13th Aug 2017, 8:23 AM

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