[78-L] Beach Boys 78s

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
> Our first stereo unit was made by Webcor. My father traded his cousin for 
> it. To get it, he had to give up a broken-down 1959 Hillman and our old 
> swing set. I think the swing set outlasted the other two items. For some 
> reason that I can't recall, I was under the impression that you couldn't 
> play stereo records with a monaural needle because it would ruin the 
> grooves. So the Webcor was used for our stereo LPs and we played all of 
> our mono 45s and LPs on a Garrard RC 88, which I still have. I was 10 so 
> what did I know?
>
The "needle thing" is and was fact...! LP grooves were 1 mil...but
"stereo" grooves were .7 mil. For most "record players" of the
sixties, playing a vinyl "stereo" disc (with .7 mil grooves( with a
regular 1-mil "mono" needle would neatly remove the "stereo"
details...so that the LP would still play fine in "mono" but one
could no longer hear "stereo!" I had that happen with a number
of LP's...!

Steven C. Barr