[78-L] Newly-pressed Bix Beiderbecke 78

[David Lennick]

Did you consider (I hate to ask!) getting ALBUMS made for them? That would be 
even more impossible than lacquering and pressing a ten-inch, I'd say..

dl

On 9/17/2010 7:44 PM, Bryan Wright wrote:
> To quote Mr. Peavey, "Well now, I wouldn't say that, Mr. Gildersleeve."
>
> In pressing the records, I found that *almost* anything is possible --
> for a price! Pressing any kind of records these days doesn't come
> cheap, especially such a customized job as a 10-inch 78 rpm two-record
> set! I regret that the per unit price is as high as it is (US $29 per
> set, postpaid in the US), but that's scarcely above production costs.
> Cost-wise, it really doesn't make sense to make a 78 these days. In my
> case, I decided that I didn't care if I never made a dime on the
> records; I put in a lot of time and effort recording the pieces and I
> wanted the satisfaction of seeing them as a pair of newly-pressed 78s.
> Of course, I do hope to sell enough to offset most of the costs of
> making them.
>
> To answer your second question, the records are stereo and use a
> microgroove (LP) stylus. I said *almost* anything is possible, and
> after asking around, I found that no one offers master cutting with an
> old-style standard 78 groove at a professional-quality level. In
> addition, since no one offers shellac pressing and even a standard-
> groove vinyl pressing would have to be played with a lightweight
> pickup, I figured there was no real need to insist on old-fashioned
> standard grooving.
>
> Bryan W.
>
> --- On Fri, 9/17/10, David Breneman  wrote:
>
>   >>  I negotiated with one of the world's top audiophile vinyl
>   >>  pressing plants (in the Netherlands) to handle the actual
>   >>  manufacture of the records, which themselves are meant to
>   >>  replicate the look and feel of a 1920s-era 78 as closely as
>   >>  possible, with no lead-in groove and using somewhat heavier
>   >>  vinyl than usual.
>
>   >  Wow, that's great to know that it's possible to do such a
>   >  project at a cost that doesn't break the bank.  What size
>   >  stylus is used to play these?
>
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