[78-L] Pagliacci set on British Columbia

[David Lennick]

I've had this set..I may still have it (don't see it on the shelf) but I held 
onto the information. Matrix numbers are between WA 4999 and 5062. Features 
Heddle Nash, Miriam Licette, Dennis Noble, Frank Mullings and Harold Williams, 
conducted by Eugene Goossens, and as I recall it's pretty awful.

dl

On 12/4/2010 6:25 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I wonder if they were any more or less consistent with that speed
> specification compared with other labels of the time?  Somewhere in the
> archives of 78-L one can find the exact matrix number at which UK Columbia's
> standard speed became 78 (IIRC it was some time in 1927).
>
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 3:19 AM, Steven C. Barr<stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:
>
>> From: "Glenn Longwell"<glongwell at snet.net>
>>> I had someone write to me through my website asking if I was interested
>> in
>>> a 12 record set in a binder by the British National Opera Company
>>> performing Pagliacci. He's located in the UK so shipping would be a bit
>>> prohibitive to get it to me in the US. What struck me funny about the set
>>> when I looked at the pictures was the speed was listed as 80rpm. Is this
>>> indicative of a certain time period for British Columbias? I only have
>> one
>>> British Columbia of that label type in my collection and just looked at
>>> it. Never noticed but it also says 80rpm.
>> Anyone interested in this set?
>>>
>> During the early-mid twenties, British Columbia cited their speed as 80
>> rpm!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>