[78-L] groove size again

[neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]

Steven,

So wide they don't play very well? What are you playing them on and what
size stylus are you using?

It occurs to me that perhaps stylus size did not become standardized for
as long as steel needles were in popular use, as they conform to the
groove size within the first few rotations. Don't they?

(in Victor/Columbia world anyway. In Edison world it was a different 
paradigm altogether)

joe salerno


joe salerno

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: <neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com>
>> What would be the widest groove ever used in commercially recorded
>> records?  I'm thinking Pathe, but would like some numbers. If there were
>> records made with a groove wider than Pathe, pls give us some names also.
>>
> Hard to say...since 78's didn't have an "official" size for the first two or 
> three
> decades of their existence! I have a couple of Grey Gull discs whose grooves
> are so wide they don't play very well; however, I suspect that was NOT
> intended...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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