[78-L] "have a crap" records

[DAVID BURNHAM]

I don't think anyone's mentioned it but another good reason to have a speaker in the washroom is to be aware if the stylus hits an obstacle and starts repeating a revolution.

I had one experience on a live-to-air classical show where we were trying to play a symphony and about 10 minutes into the side, the stylus would become completely clogged and skate across the rest of the record.  We always cleaned records before playing them and, of course, while Margaret Pacsu was explaining to the old folks at home, (as current C.B.C. executives view all listeners to classical music), what had happened, we re-cleaned this one before trying to play it again.  It got a little further before the arm once again, for reasons forgotten, skated across the record.  The third time we tried to play it, (while the producer was madly trying to calculate the effect this would have on the timing of the program), it went further still before it hit a locked groove and wouldn't go any further.  The host had to explain to the listeners that we would be unable to finish this work - which was, of course, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, (I'm not making
 this up).  I remember we were playing the Bruno Walter recording to recognize the centennial of his birth.

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