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

[Randy Watts]

Running across those filler pieces is one of the nice things about picking up things on 78rpm that I've already heard on the LP reissues

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, 9:44 PM
> I think they began to add the bonus piece later, and many
> old sets had a filler 
> piece added in the later pressings. Bonus pieces often were
> left behind when 
> the albums were reissued on LP..sometimes they'd be
> gathered into collection 
> LPs, sometimes they just became memories.
> 
> dl
> 
> Randy Watts wrote:
> > 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"
> >> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>>> 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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