[78-L] a set of Victor PRogram transcriptions

[David Lennick]

Too bad we didn't discuss this earlier..I could have given you a 24RPM disc 
while we were stuffing our faces at the Pickle Barrel last month. I got a batch 
of these at that infamous house where the collector/accumulator/hoarder died in 
his car from having too many records (that sandwich I ate could qualify as a #2 
lethal weapon, by the way).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> I don't have any of the 24 RPM discs but I do have a player.  It has a
> beautiful chrome-plated Thorens spring-wound motor with speed adjustment
> for 24, 33, and 78.  It has an electrical pick-up but no amplifier.  The
> output is strong enough to drive a pair of headphones.  The output are
> phone-tip connections (not a 1/4 inch phone plug).  It could also be
> connected to an amp/speaker or the phono input in a radio.  George
> Blacker found it in a Conn. antique store for me.  
> 
> The 7-inch Talking Book Records at 16 2/3 with a large hole are a
> commercial label, not meant for the blind.  The recordings are done for
> sighted people and include dramatic influences, while recordings
> specifically meant for the blind are read faster than usual and with a
> general absence of drama.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> The early discs were shellac..presumably the slow speed would have lessened the 
> effects of heavy soundboxes, and chromium needles were already in use in
> the US 
> for the 33RPM Program Transcriptions. Later discs feel like the same
> very hard 
> compound used for BBC Transcriptions.  dl
> 
> Jamie Kelly wrote:
>> I've not seen one but I understand their was a gramophone designed to play
>> these 24 rpm discs. The disdcs are plastic or vinyl so the usual steel nedle
>> would be no good. I have a Decca disc talking book player that has verible
>> speed.   Jamie
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Lennick
>>
>> I have a batch of those 24RPM discs. This speed was picked because most of
>> the listeners would have had wind-up gramophones at that time and this was
>> the slowest that could be obtained with a single winding, as I understand
>> it.
>>
>> I have Talking Books of similar material at 33RPM and 16RPM..Alexander
>> Scourby reading the Bible. The 33s date from 1949, the 16rpm look like late
>> 70s or 80s pressings.   dl
>>
>> Jamie Kelly wrote:
>>> The UK RNIB talking book discs were 24 rpm. We mainly got the UK discs 
>>> in Australia.   Jamie
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Robert M. Bratcher Jr.
>>>
>>> At 12:12 PM 11/10/2009, you wrote:
>>>> I never knew such things existed....a 4 hour reading on 20 10" sides.
>>>>
>>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130343451724&ssPag
>>>> eName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123     js
> 
>>> Must be the very first commercial release audiobook. From listening to 
>>> parts of a few of the mp3 files the reading seems to be very good.
>>>
>>> I wonder when the first Library Of Congress talking book records for 
>>> the blind came out? They would have been 33 rpm & either 10 or perhaps 
>>> 12 inches in diameter. Later (I'm not sure when) they went to 10 inch 
>>> 16 rpm records that ran 45 minutes per side. I've never seen the 33 
>>> rpm ones. Only the 16 & 8 rpm records...... 
> 
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