[78-L] Microgroove 78s

[David Lennick]

There were other microgroove 78s at that time, including Bell, some 7-inch 
yellow plastic Party Records that look like Goldens (hope they didn't get into 
the wrong grubby hanes), and premiums pressed by Columbia of Frankie Laine, Jo 
Stafford and probably others. Some indicated microgroove, some didn't. It may 
be that they figured that many folks were using 3-speed players and didn't know 
enough to change the needle anyway, or were using those 2-mil "universal" 
needles. Near-mint Bell pressings can sound great with a 1-mil stylus.

dl

David Lewis wrote:
> This is what I would call an "ultra microgroove 78"
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> It's 7 inches and runs for 3:08 at 78 rpm. While it was played at some point by a bad
> needle, so that may be a factor, it has terrible problems with transience of signal and, 
> depending on the tracking force you try, sometimes even achieves a "print-through" like 
> effect.
> I'm curious as to what kind of stylii the producers of these records were expecting people
> to play these things back with. It dates from the 50s, and would have been a record 
> mailed out from this ministry in exchange for a donation. As this ministry was based in
> South Bend, IN I suspect the target audience would have been rural, not an area where
> most folks had sophisticated kinds of playback equipment.
> Uncle Dave Lewis uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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