[78-L] Green stylus designation
Kristjan Saag
saag at telia.com
Mon Apr 27 14:01:49 PDT 2009
> If somewhat goldfish like memory serves me correctly, was
> this not a designation used by UK record companies to tell you which
> stylus to use -- green being for 78s and red I think for microgroove
> recordings (lps and 45s). I seem to recall that this system didn't
> last all that long.
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Not only the UK - Sweden as well. Most record players (both Scandinavian and
foreign) in the 1950's had this system: green dot (N): normal groove, red
dot (M): micro groove.
Kristjan
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