[78-L] Something you don't see every day! [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Didn't Gramophon/Polydor issue 'micrograde' 78's during and/or after the war, that played 2x or 3x as long as ordinary....????

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Milan P Milovanovic <milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Milan P Milovanovic <milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Something you don't see every day!
> To: 78-l at 78online.com
> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 6:51 PM
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 5:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Something you don't see every day!
> 
> >
> > Actually there ARE Long Playing 78s (but not this
> one).  Obviously there
> > are the Edison LPs (which ran at 80), then there are
> the Duriums and the
> > Clarian/Columbia Longer Playing 78s from the early 30s
> although they are
> > really only slightly longer playing.  But in 1953
> when the Soviets did
> > their first microgroove LPs, some of them ran at 33
> and some ran at 78.
> > I have several dozen of their 78 LPs, and they are
> significantly long
> > playing.  The 8-inchers are about 10 minutes per
> side, and the
> > 10-inchers can be about 15 minutes.  The ones at
> 33 are up to about 25
> > minutes.
> >
> 
> I have also one collection of Soviet classical music, all
> packed in original 
> leather box, around 20 or 25 pieces.
> 
>  All 10", all labels are the same, and all of them are
> microgroove, except 
> some of theme are 33 rpm (about 2/3) and the rest are 78
> rpm. 
> 
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