[78-L] Weird!!!^

[Bill McClung]

My first response was "Not my problem.  I'll be gone."

My second was "How many of us have a machine to play a cylinder? And when
did they stop manufacturing those?"


> [Original Message]
> From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: 7/31/2009 10:18:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Weird!!!^
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> > Yesterday, Henry Allingham, who had been the world's oldest man, was
> > buried. He was 113 years old and the last survivor of WW1.
> >
> Well...at 113, he was 41 years older than I am (40 at the end of
10/22/09)!
>
> I just hope that Alzheimer's doesn't get me before I can finish figuring
out
> exactly WHICH 78's are included in my 55,057(+/-)
>
> Fortunately, I missed all the wars...including the US adventure in Viet
Nam
> (I escaped the draft via signing up for the USAF, and then spent 3 years
in
> Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany [a ski resort!] followed by six months in
> Fort Walton Beach, Florida [a beach resort!]!)
>
> I have NO idea how many 78's I will own if I live to be 113...at that
point,
> I will have out-lived hundreds of 78 collectors...and thus probably been
> able to acquire their holdings at affordable prices...?!
>
> The REAL question is THIS...?! At some point in the not-too-distant
> future, there will no longer exist ANYBODY who is interested enough
> in 78-era music to search out...and PAY for...machines which can play
> 78rpm phonorecords (i.e. both the speed and a c. 3-mil needle?!).
>
> The RECORDS will still exist...but methods to extract their sonic content
> may NOT...?! After all, one needs (1) a turntable which rotates at, or
> around, 78 revolutions (rotations?) per minute...(2) a needle/stylus with
> a 3-mil (+/-) tip!
>
> Na und?!
>
> Steven C. Barr 
>
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