[78-L] question about a 78

[Michael Biel]

Does the label say it is a 78??  It is highly unusual for a 16-inch disc 
to run at anything but 33.  The chip flies off the record too fast while 
it is cut at that high speed.  George Blacker found a Columbia Royal 
Blue test pressing of an experiment Columbia made of cutting a 16-inch 
at 78, and I now own it.  It is the only one either of us had ever 
seen.  The only other example we know of are the overdub sub-masters 
that Les Paul recorded before he got his tape recorders.  Is this record 
a pressing or a lacquer?  This record's label might have a check-off 
place for 33 and 78 and he might have just assumed it was at 78 if 
neither box was checked off.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Donna Halper wrote:
> A friend of mine from Chicago asked me about a 78 he found.  He has 
> no equipment to play it and is just wondering what it might be, and 
> who Gordini and Lee were.  I thought it sounded like a radio 
> transcription.  Any ideas?
>
> my friend wrote:
>   
>> It's a 16 inch, 78 rpm record.  It is typewriten: Recorded in the 
>> Studios of  GORDINI & LEE RADIO PRODUCTIONS , Chicago, Illinois.
>> It also says "BIG CITY PARADE," hand written with #1 on one side, 
>> and # 2 on the other side-- the words "Big City Parade" are on both sides.
>>     
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