[78-L] First LP

[David Lennick]

Anyone who's ever played lacquers knows how careful you have to be, not just in handling them but in playing them and in finding the exact start point of the music. You can't back cue or you destroy the grooves leading into the first note..I wonder how they got around this when transferring parts of a continuous work? Mark a start point at the edge and count the number of revolutions and hope you got it right?

 

A Mercury reissue of Alfred Newman's "Street Scene" has a HUGE tchhhhhhhhh on the first note. Cue scratch.

 

dl


 
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:49:44 -0500
> From: neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] First LP
> 
> Maybe when new. Did lacquer noise increase with age, perhaps the 
> laminate dried out?
> 
> Frequently I have found the outer edges to be noisier than the inner, 
> and not just higher freqs.
> 
> joe salerno
> 
> 
> Ron L'Herault wrote:
> > Maybe one should say that lacquers were relatively quiet. 8-) Unless
> > abused, they were quieter than shellac, from what I've heard.
> > 
> > Ron L
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> > [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> > 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > Lacquers weren't always quiet, either. I can hear lacquer noise on a 1940
> > Guiomar Novaes 78 in its original pressing, and recently I transferred the
> > "Music of Morton Gould" set from a near mint Lp. The sound is gorgeous, but
> > the two spirituals have very noticeable lacquer noise on the Lp.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > (Biel..notice I'm now spelling it "Lp"!)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > dl
> > 
> > 
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