[78-L] November 2

[David Lennick]

Bob Rice wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:56 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] November 2
> 
> 
>> Very important! From the 1926 catalog:
>>
>> "Set the regulator so that the turntable of your Victrola revolves
>> seventy-eight times per minute, AND NEVER CHANGE IT unless for some 
>> special
>> purpose. When using Victrola and piano together, it is occasionally 
>> necessary
>> to change the speed slightly to get the two instruments exactly in tune; 
>> and
>> sometimes the dancers wish a little variation to suit the steps. Test the 
>> speed
>> occasionally by placing a slip of paper under the edge of the record, and 
>> WHILE
>> IT IS REVOLVING, see that the paper revolves 78 times in one minute.
>>
>> You will, of course, meet the man who insists on turning the regulator of 
>> his
>> Victrola up and down, thus changing the speed with each record he plays. 
>> DON'T
>> IMITATE HIM---HE IS WRONG. Only at a speed of seventy-eight can you hear 
>> the
>> actual tones of the singer or player JUST AS THEY WERE RECORDED."
>>
>> So there!
>>
>> dl
>>
>   And I'm SURE it said; " For Best Results Use Victor Needles" too!
>> ___________________

Tungs-tone, of course.

VTM of Canada must have had a ton of old stock left..I'm quoting from the 
Canadian catalog (July 1926) and it sayeth, "Single-sided Red Seal Records 
previously issued but not listed in this catalogue in double-sided form may be 
obtained from the undersigned on receipt of the list price, plus an amount 
sufficient to cover packing and transportation charges." Big of them.

dl