[78-L] Exciting announcement [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Still trying to figure out how to bring up the advertising pages.  Should
 be a great source for dating issuance of stuff....  NOW we need somebody to do up Peter Hugh Reed's  American Record Guide and H Royer Smith's
The New Records, and the Gramophone Shop Supplments, to know when stuff was issued in the USA!

Any help appreciated!

Mike in Plovdiv


--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Exciting announcement
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 11:45 PM
> Donna Halper wrote:
> > At 11:45 PM 1/1/2009, you wrote:
> >   
> >> Believe it or not, the Gramophone has set up a
> free Web archive with 
> >> all the contents of the magazine including
> advertisements from the 
> >> first issue in 1923 up to the present!
> >>     
> >
> > And I guess it likes me, it really likes me, because
> my registration 
> > e-mail arrived within 5 seconds of my completing the
> form at the 
> > Gramophone site.  Thanks for the information Steve,
> and happy new year. 
> >
> >   
> 
> I've been devouring it for the past few hours.  I wish
> it was easier to 
> browse from page to page without having to go back to
> earlier pages so 
> often.  I quickly found that what I heard about the Brits
> love of fibre 
> needles was true.  During the war years, even when records
> were scarce, 
> many ads insisted on only "fibred" records and
> records"never touched by 
> a steel needle".  I saw one ad offering records
> "fibred three times".  
> All this cactus juice was part of the problem in the
> development of 
> crackle on British pressings in later years. 
> 
> In the May 1942 issye I found a fullpage ad with picture
> announcing some 
> new records made by Oda Slobodskaya exclusively for the
> Rimington, Van 
> Wyck Ltd store by Decca.   I'll slip this ad in  my
> copy of her Peter 
> and the Wolf. 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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