[78-L] Rubbish Quality Records (was Major Records Sound Effects 78's)

Roger Wade rwade1947 at comcast.net
Sun Feb 1 08:05:10 PST 2009


For starters, a lot of Musicraft 78s were on very poor quality  
shellac.  They could look Near Mint and play V or worse.

Roger Wade
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On Feb 1, 2009, at 10:59 AM, agp wrote:

> At 04:22 01/02/2009, David Lennick  wrote:
>> Some people have been known to think highly of Major's discs. Most
>> of the ones
>> I've encountered have been pressed on reground Grey Gull material  
>> or worse,
>> although eventually they put the stuff out on good vinyl.
>
>
> This got me to thinking about labels whose pressings were absolute
> crap. You know the type: noisy pressings that sound like roofing
> shingles being played with rusty nails. How about a list of those?
>
> Tony
>
>
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