[78-L] RCA Victor reverse side "spider web" etching name?

[Randy Watts]

Is that why some classical sets throw in a "bonus" piece rather than have an odd number of sides and the last disc in the set single-sided?

Randy


--- On Wed, 1/7/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] RCA Victor  reverse side "spider web" etching name?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 9:18 PM
> Matter of fact, the discs with the design and a groove
> running through them 
> tended to break more easily because of the deep groove. At
> a time when Red 
> Seals cost $2 per disc and single discs from album sets
> were very reluctantly 
> sold by dealers, collectors learned to keep the odd disc
> INSIDE the album 
> instead of at the front or back where it could succumb to
> pressure. Check out 
> the library collections with Bruckner's 7th Symphony
> with a broken last disc. 
> (I learned this from Dick Burns as he was TAPING the last
> movement for me, not 
> loaning it to me.)
> 
> dl
> 
> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> > Okay, then how about possible added structural
> integrity? Wouldn't a 
> > disc with a design be less apt to break than one with
> a plain, flat side?
> > M
> > 
> > *******
> > 
> > Martha wrote:
> >> The millions of single-faced pressings which play
> fine would tend to counter 
> >> this idea...    None of mine have ever slipped on
> the turntable, nor run at 
> >> off-speeds.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "joe at salerno.com"
> <jsalerno at earthlink.net>
> >> To: "78-L Mail List"
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> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:37 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] RCA Victor reverse side
> "spider web" etching name?
> >>
> >>
> >>   
> >>> As it was explained, I think by Dr. Biel, they
> needed something in the
> >>> press so that the bisquit would run properly
> as it melted. Hence you
> >>> sometimes find transcriptions with a silent
> groove on the blank side
> >>>     
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