[78-L] No -- this is the world's rarest record

[DAVID BURNHAM]

There has to be so many recordings of which there is only one copy.  I have a 
recording of Leopold Stokowski conducting the Toronto Symphony - I'm pretty sure 
it's the only copy.  I also have a digital Dizzy Gilespie recording which I know 
is the only copy because I recorded it myself and it was never copied or 
broadcast.  And I'm sure any collector on this list has similar rareties.  One 
rhetorical question I often ponder is how many copies of various records are 
still extant in the world.  Take a very popular set like the Horowitz - 
Toscanini Tchaikovsky first Piano Concerto;  are there still thousands of 
copies, tens of thousands of copies or millions of copies?  Of course we'll 
never know, but I look at records of which I've never seen another copy except 
the one I have and wonder how many are still out there.

db