[78-L] Pathe Records Questions

Royal Pemberton ampex354 at gmail.com
Sat Jul 11 22:40:58 PDT 2009


And if they're centre start, they may play at 90 rpm.  If so, and A)
you do not have a turntable which can be made to run at 90 rpm, and B)
you have a two-speed (at least) reel-to-reel tape machine, you can
play them at 45 whilst dubbing to tape at the lower speed, then play
it back at the higher speed to simulate the sound of them at 90.

On 7/12/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Dave Stamper was a songwriter, but I don't know anything else about these.
> Are
> they center start?
>
> You need a lot of patience to play them. Or an old Brunswick phonograph with
> the Ultona tone arm. Or a stylus with a huge tip, 6 mil or so, and a phase
> reverse switch on your setup.
>
> dl
>
> Bart wrote:
>> I have three Pathe discs - make that "disques" - one of which is 036276
>> by the Southampton Society Orchestra.
>>
>> But the other two have catalog numbers smaller than those listed on
>> http://www.78discography.com/
>>
>> One is a 10" Disque Pathe 8356 "Hawaiiana" credited to Orchestre Mondain
>> Jose Sentis and on the other side "Pura Clase"
>> which doesn't seem to list a performer.
>>
>> The other is a large, but slightly smaller than 12 inch, Disque Pathe
>> 7019, Made in France.  It features "Allo! Cheri!" Dave Stamper one step
>> b/w
>> Florida Petillo Tango Milano.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me anything about these latter two?  I haven't heard
>> them.  I wonder what's on them, and I wonder what I need to play them -
>> as well as  the usual  questions about when they date from and even
>> who's performing on them - is Dave Stamper the performer or the
>> songwriter?
>>
>> Bart
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