[78-L] Decca 100 & 101

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Thu Sep 23 21:01:15 PDT 2010


From: <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> ------Original Message------
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> geoffrey wheeler printed the too large story in his book saying it was 
> Gennett who pressesd them.   But someone  here who i misinter preted 
> proved that all the jukeboxes of that era could take them and even larger 
> discs to maybe10 1/4.  These two were in print for a long time but i don't 
> think I have 10.0 copies.
>
Would that not have been necessary in the thirties? Columbia-pressed discs
(which included Okeh!) were, AFAIK, all 10.25" in diameter?! In fact, a lot 
of
reissues of these have the discs completely covered with the grooving, if
they are on 10" discs...?!

Steven C. Barr 




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