[78-L] Creative copywriting

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Finding some great ads in old audio magazines. This one is for Cambridge
> Records, High Fidelity, April 1966..it may have gone unnoticed at the time
> since it was a half column and the type was very small.
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> NOTICE is hereby given to Ladies & Gentlemen of our Fresh Stocks of newly
> prepared wheels for Musical Engines that go of themselves, playing the 
> Musick
> of Great & Ancient Masters as though in the Flesh performing in your 
> Private
> Hall or Chamber, whether Organs, Violins, Hautboys or Harpsichords 
> reproducing
> every Affect with the Loftiest Verisimilitude.
> [itemizes discs of "J. D. Zelenka, late of Prague", "Heinrich Biber late 
> of
> Salzburg" and "Gustav Leonhardt presently of Amsterdam]
> N.B. For Extra Money can be had Discs engraved in an even more Ingenious 
> Manner
> lately Perfected to cause Sounds to emerge from Several Places at Once so 
> that
> a Blind-Man were certain of Live Musicians Ranged before him.
>
So...there once existed folkses at least as crazy as *I* am...?!

One never knows, do one,,,?!

Steven C. Barr (who may YET offer for sale via the Internet re-recordings
of his 55,057(+/-) 78rpm phonorecordd, "dubbed" to digital form...?!)

...stevenc