May not have had anything to do with 78s Amor but interesting and quite touching in a way. I had an aunt like that.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostI would imagine that the pressures to conform were also much stronger at that time.
My mother went out of her way to dissuade me from giving a crap about social conventions as much as possible.
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An LP and a 12" are the same, an album with approx 12 tracks in total. A 78 has the same amount of music as a 45 (single), but is larger because it spins faster. I don't have one in front of me but they were about 10" in diameter. There were also 10" inch albums for awhile in the fifties and, maybe early sixties. Made famous by Bullmoose Jackson Jackson singing about how much his "baby loves his big ten inch (record of her favourite songs.)"
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Originally posted by Greenlander View PostWith that mechanism whereby you'd clip the rcord at the top of the metal spindle, click the lever and it would descend and the arm would move across into place.
This was great for playing a batch of singles one after the other, without having to touch the record player...
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- Mar 2008
- 9766
- Tyne 'n' Wear (emphasis on the 'n')
- Dundee Utd, Gladbach, Atleti, Napoli, New Orleans Saints, Elgin City
Wedding Present Ukrainian EP another 10 gimmick of the later 80s.
Ive acquired quite a lot of 78s in job lots at auctions. Apart from some nice sleeves and labels Ive discovered theyre practically worthless (for selling on, I mean) apart from old blues and rude songs ( the other meaning of blue)
And very fragile- lots are broken in the boxes. So even more worthless.
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I saw a load of 8'' shellacs from the late 20's/early30's in a junk shop (and that's being kind) a few weeks back. All of them on the Edison Bell Radio label. Discogs shows that they're rare, but regrettably people who want them are even rarer. I reasoned that somebody in the know had already picked over the records and taken anything of value so left 'em. I have no means of playing them anyway.
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Sorry, I accidentally deleted my post from above so I'm reposting it.
Originally posted by Hot Pepsi View PostWhats the difference between a 78, an LP and a 12 inch?
The 12 single was born out of Disco and the Extended Mix. DJs in clubs wanted longer tracks to keep the momentum going on the floor and were frustrated with the limitations of what you could fit on a traditional 7 single. So, in 1974/75 somebody had the bright idea of pressing a single song onto a 12 disc, increasing the length of the mix, and because significantly less music was involved than the usual 20-25 minutes that was on an LP the engineers had plenty of spare disc to play with. This allowed them to widen the groves which greatly increased the dynamic range and sound quality of the recording. The 12 single was a revelation when played back through a good sound system in a nightclub,
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Originally posted by George View PostSorry, I accidentally deleted my post from above so I'm reposting it.
78s are essentially your old gramophone records and were the dominant format for most of the first half of the last century. They were usually 10 in size and the amount of music that could fit on one side was roughly equal to that of a 7 single. The invention of the LP (on a 12 record) by Columbia Records and the 45rpm, 7 single by RCA Victor in the 1940s rendered it a soon to be obsolete format.
The 12 single was born out of Disco and the Extended Mix. DJs in clubs wanted longer tracks to keep the momentum going on the floor and were frustrated with the limitations of what you could fit on a traditional 7 single. So, in 1974/75 somebody had the bright idea of pressing a single song onto a 12 disc, increasing the length of the mix, and because significantly less music was involved than the usual 20-25 minutes that was on an LP the engineers had plenty of spare disc to play with. This allowed them to widen the groves which greatly increased the dynamic range and sound quality of the recording. The 12 single was a revelation when played back through a good sound system in a nightclub,
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