[78-L] The difference between 78 and 33 RPM records

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Dec 31 09:25:51 PST 2009


The stylus would probably be driven whether it had a groove or not, no?

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I think there may have been the odd cylinder with more than one recording on
> it, but there'd not be spirals or locked grooves between them, only a blank
> space between the sets of grooves for each recording.
> 
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:11 AM, neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com <
> neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> No grooves in 78's .
>>
>> Actually most 78s had only one groove, per side, 1 long continuous
>> groove unless there was a locked band, then there may have been more
>> than 1 groove per side
>>
>> if a runout was added later, then maybe that could count as an
>> additional groove
>>
>> cylinders had only one groove, unless someone can say that they have
>> seen a cylinder with a locked groove and banding
>>
>> not sure how that would play when the stylus came to the land between
>> grooves
>>
>> joe salerno
>>
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