[78-L] Average Age.

[Spats]

Hi!

You can certainly buy a whole range of styli in the UK.
Mind you...they're not cheap.

I'm currently in touch via e-mail, with a 25yo who lives in Armenia.
His English is pretty good.
He's doing a dissertation on fine art, but his passion is for the 
same opera singers who recorded from 1890-1950.

However, it's the music he loves, rather than the records...and he 
hasn't either access of funds to buy 78s.
So, he collects Mp3s of these ancient recordings.

Then, there's a student living in the Midlands (UK) who wishes to buy 
some of my spare Caruso 78s.
He wants them in good condition, because he's interested in record 
restoration...

As for me, I began to collect 78s, mainly operatic ones, when I was 
6yo. That was in 1953!

Now I have 10,000 of them plus a lot of doubles which I must try to 
sell and make some space!!! ;-)

Earl.

At 4:35 pm -0800 11/11/2010, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>Also, it is possible to buy 78-capable players (they don't mention
>that the needles are the wrong size, though...?!)...! When I started
>collecting 78's (1973) it was possible to buy new N8-3 Astatic
>needles...so I drove out to the Astatic facility (in east-end Toronto)
>and bought a dozen N8-3d diamond 78 needles. I wish I had bought
>a lot more!
>
>Steven C. Barr