[78-L] Liberty Bell; was Re: Museum quality?

[Glenn Longwell]

It's interesting to see that picture posted somewhere on the Liberty Bell site.  I created a web page with that same picture that I took from Talking Machine World a few years ago simply to get some feedback on it.  We talked about it here.  I communicated with someone at the Liberty Bell site and they created a link to my page in their links section.  I had only planned to keep it there for a short time and delete it.  But then I noticed a lot of traffic from that link and even got some questions from school kids.  So I've kept it up there and even added the song Liberty Bell by the Peerless Quartet.

http://www.majesticrecord.com/libertybell.htm

Glenn

--- On Sat, 5/7/11, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Museum quality?
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, May 7, 2011, 6:03 PM

On 5/7/2011 12:11 PM, David Breneman wrote:
> --- On Fri, 5/6/11, Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>  wrote:
>
>> Does the Liberty Bell have a lam crack or is it hairline?
>> Did anybody check to see if someone put Scotch tape on the
>> edge of the bell?

Actually they stabilized with a heavy rivet, similar to the suggestion 
I've seen about how to stabilize a split in a blue Amberol cylinder.  
You drill a tiny hole in the celluloid at the end of the split to make 
it a circle.  You lose a couple more grooves, but the split will not go 
any farther.

In Philadelphia they wouldn't use Scotch Tape, they'd use Quaker State.

I might mention that the huge bell that I have seen in the Kremlin in 
Moscow has an edge bite so big you could walk through it.(if they had 
not put up some chicken-wire over the hole to keep people and other 
critters out of the bell).



> An interesting aside is that the reason they can't
> ring the Liberty Bell is not because of the large
> crack on the side.  That one's stable.  It's because
> of a hairline crack across the top, which isn't.


The Kremlin bell  won't ring because it is on the ground.


> YES, this has something to do with 78s:
>
> http://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/images/article1915.jpg

We discussed this a few years ago.  Has anybody found the master?

Mike (my favorite comic strip character was Batsin Bellfrey) Biel  
mbiel at mbiel.com
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