[78-L] Standard Talking Machine Records

[David Lennick]

Maybe they had tighter grooves..Little Wonders certainly did a few years later, 
since they could run close to 1'45". And some very early discs (mostly G&T I 
think) are known to play better with a small tip.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> All of them I have ever seen or know of were remaindered Columbia records,
> with the same catalogue numbers as they had in their original Columbia
> incarnations.  And would thus have the same grooving, etc., as 'real'
> Columbias.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Bart <garioch at texas.net> wrote:
> 
>> I saw a small stack of records from The Standard Talking Machine Co. of
>> Chicago, the ones with the oversize center hole.
>>
>> A quick google found info about the company, its players, and the
>> oversize center punch, but what struck me handling the disks was how
>> impossibly tiny and shallow the grooves were.  Would these things have
>> ever been playable?  They were very thick and quite worn though the
>> warning labels on the undersides were intact on most of them.  Were
>> these made of shellac?  They felt more like some sort of rigid plastic.
>>
>> Because of their size (close to 7") they were in with some 45's. By
>> comparison the STM grooves looked even smaller.  Artists weren't
>> mentioned on the label, merely song titles; though one was presumably
>> Cal Stewart because it was entitled Uncle Josh does something or another
>> - I forget what...
>>
>> Bart  (not really a fan of Uncle Josh)
>>
>>
>>