[78-L] transfer of acoustic vocalions & 8tracks.com for sharing

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephanie Gaynor" <steph_gaynor at yahoo.com>
> thank you!  Do you think 80rpm is the right speed?  martha posts that they 
> are too fast.
>
Establishing accurate playing speeds for "78's" has been an issue among 
collectors
for MANY decades! Also, later 78's are sometimes NOT recorded at 78.26 rpm;
I set out to try playing harmonica (generally in perfect key...?!) to Fats 
Waller's
"Your Feets Too Big" and discovered that it played back (supposedly at "78")
at about "E flat and a quarter...?!

IMHO, record companies weren't terribly concerned whether their records
were cut at EXACTLY 78.26 rpm; the only purchasers who cared about
the accuracy of recording speeds were a few musicians who intended to
play along with the records they bought!!

Steven C. Barr