[78-L] One or three holes?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Thu Jun 30 15:08:18 PDT 2011


Found it..and I'd say it had been punched out. And it has one pin hole. Also a 
label where half the space is used by the "audiodisc" name and logo and a 
radius of about 3/4" for writing title info in an arc at the bottom, like the 
old Aretino 78 label.

On 6/30/2011 6:03 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> I may still have one or I may have purged it last year..can't remember whether
> it looked as if it had had a punch-out or not, but I can't imagine a
> professional cutting engineer wanting to cope with the variable size of a large
> center hole on a blank. Playing the stupid things is enough of a pain.
>
> dl
>
> On 6/30/2011 4:06 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> I saw a few 7" Audiodiscs with no label on them several years ago&   all had the proper 45 rpm center hole.
>>
>>
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 2:26 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] One or three holes?
>>>
>>> By the way, there WERE 7-inch lacquer blanks made by Soundcraft with a
>>> punchable center hole for the 45 spindle..found an ad for them in a 1953 High
>>> Fiddledeedee.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 6/30/2011 3:17 PM, Martin Fisher wrote:
>>>> Three holed urban legend.  These are erroneously referred to as "punch
>>>> marks" by misinformed Elvis devotees who believe the pressing machine made
>>>> them while extracting the finished 45 rpm records!
>>>>
>>>> Tee hee
>>>>
>>>> MF


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