[78-L] Z shellac

[David Lennick]

It may have been as a result of the Carnegie Libraries insisting on better 
quality shellac for the collections they were distributing. The 'z' stopped 
appearing sometime around 1936 (?) but the quality of the pressings remained 
good till the advent of drop automatic changers and the halving of prices in 
1940, at which point everything went to hell.

dl

On 6/1/2011 2:16 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
> I don't know why the Z but it is marked with a Z in the runout.
>
> Ron L
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> If looking at a 78, how would it be known that it is pressed on Z shellac?
>
> And why did they call it that? Why not some other letter? Maybe S for
> superior, Q for quiet, W for whisper....
>
> joe salerno