[78-L] Decca 100 & 101

[Royal Pemberton]

Nope.  I understand there's some test pressings 10 1/2" or 11" but before
some time in 1931 or so 10" Columbias were just that--10"--instead of the
9.875" of Victor and others.

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:01 AM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> 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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