[78-L] Cold Shellac

[David Lennick]

Carefully hold it up to the light and you'll be able to see through it. Notice 
I said "carefully". Audiodiscs were exceptionally thin when on glass base and 
the cold could have been the culprit, or even just taking it out of the sleeve 
while handling it like a normal shellac disc.

dl

On 12/24/2010 12:15 PM, marimbamoods at comcast.net wrote:
> interesting thought, Glenn, especially as this is apparently a lacquer disc.
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> the fact that this transcription is a glass-based lacquer would explain something i noticed about it. when i unpacked the disc, the first indication i had of the crack was the sound of the two halves rubbing together as i slid it from the sleeve. although i have received cracked shellac 78's in the mail before, the sound this particular rubbing made was something i had never heard before. it had a high-pitched brittle tone, something like fingernails against a blackboard sound. that would seem to corroborate the glass-based lacquer as the substance, and hence the breakage. this is my first disc of that sort, but i have heard of their fragility.
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> david
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