[78-L] music for exercising

[David Lennick]

Ah yes..10-inch 33RPM Lps. Makes the exercises a lot less frenetic.

dl

martha wrote:
>  A special set ; there's even a set for sale, right now: 
> http://tinyurl.com/nt2dr9
> 
>  Victrola No.50 was the model (and the price, I think) ..  they also had a 
> Victrola 35, same deal
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donna Halper" <dlh at donnahalper.com>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 3:14 PM
> Subject: [78-L] music for exercising
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> 
>> I just found an advertisement from mid August 1922 for Victor
>> Records-- it was in a number of newspapers.  It advertised a
>> "Portable Victrola No. 50" and a set of exercise records.  As you all
>> know, I am not an expert in the machines of the 78 era-- so, was
>> there a portable Victrola number 48 or 49, or was 50 just a brand
>> name?  Also, what  were the records that went along with the
>> record-player?  The ad says the records were specially designed to be
>> used in an exercise regimen-- but it doesn't explain what songs they
>> were.  It just says they will enable people to "Exercise to
>> Music".  The records are only described as "three double-faced Victor
>> Records for Health Exercises," sold in a "compact container" and
>> planned by an (alleged) authority named Professor Charles H. Collins.
>> Any further explanation would be very interesting for me, and I'd
>> appreciate it.
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