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Topic: The plural to "vinyl" is... VINYL!!

  23rd Mar 2023, 12:42 AM
W.B.lbl

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GimmeVinyl wrote:
How many of us vinyl collectors have ever heard or read the very incorrect term of a record collection being referred to as.. "vinyls"??
Believe it or not, RCA itself, in the 1950's, used "vinyls" as the term for 45's and LP's - to distinguish them from the 78 format which used shellac. I saw it in some publications they put out in the '50's that are on the World Radio History site. Not saying it's correct, but . . . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

They also used "TP" as an abbreviation for "test pattern." But that's for another subject and thread and time.


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