[78-L] wet playing records

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 12:45 AM 2/12/2010, you wrote:
>Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> > At 02:06 PM 2/11/2010, you wrote:
> >
> >> Michael Biel wrote:
> >>
> >>> The reason why British pressings have so much crackle is because they
> >>> used a shellac formula rich in organic fillers and these have
> >>> deteriorated in the damp British climate.  That was the subject of John
> >>> Stratton's article "Crackle" I mentioned from the BIRS Recorded Sound No
> >>> 39, July 1970 p655+.   You learn to be able to see the crackle, and the
> >>> water damage.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> And as DB likely knows, the CBC always bought English pressings wherever
> >> possible, even of American recordings, and these still sound
> >> marvelously quiet
> >> 70 years later. The green library sleeves have been 
> disintegrating for years
> >> but the discs are the quietest I've ever heard outside of vinyls.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >
> > Then why is an English Decca 78 rpm classical set I own so full of
> > crackle when it's played? Did it spend part of it's life in the UK
> > before winding up here in the southern US before I bought it used? I
> > guess it did........
>
>It's also humid in much of the southern U.S.  I guess it is dry up in
>Canada.  Or air-conditioned with low humidity at the CBC.

That makes sense......