[78-L] Schizophrenic Victor Scroll

[Michael Biel]

Michael Shoshani wrote:

> > Smallest I've seen is just under three inches in diameter. Victor used
> > that size on 12" records that ran really exceptionally long.


That seems like the normal later label size.  I've seen acoustical 
Columbias under 2-inches.  Does size still matter???

David Lennick wrote:
> British 8-inch discs used very small labels, and of course Little Wonder had 
> 'em even smaller (don't have figures to hand and what am I doing online on New 
> Year's Eve anyway?).
>
> dl
>   

So you are not freezing your butt off watching something drop from the 
CN tower, or something like that.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>   
>> On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 23:45 +0000, Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>     
>>> The first record I ever saw sporting different sized labels on each
>>> side was Columbia A 2408, 'Somewhere in France is the lily' by Henry
>>> Burr backed with 'Where the great red dawn is shining'  by Charles
>>> Harrison.  1917 record with period blue gold band labels.  The
>>> Harrison side has the normal size of label for the era but the Burr
>>> side has a smaller label, about the size of the labels adopted in
>>> 1930.
>>>
>>> What is the smallest size label ever used on a 10 inch or 12 inch record?
>>>       
>>
>>
>>     
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