[78-L] What's an ERPI?

[Han Enderman]

Does the -6 suffix in these ERPI numbers refer to the number of sides in the series?

han enderman
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>>> On 10/13/2011 10:57 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
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> The ERPI GERTRUDE STEIN discs listed in Worldcat:
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> 8066-6  The Making Of Americans
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> 8068-6  A Valentine To Sherwood Anderson
> 8069-6  Selections From Madame Recamier An Opera
> 8070-6  Matisse
> 8071-6  If I Told Him. A Completed Portrait Of Picasso

The disc I have is 8068-6 and 8069-6, labelled Contemporary Poets III and IV. 
Making of Americans was "Parts 1 & 2" on the Caedmon lp, as I recall, so this 
all flows as a series.

dl
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> The ERPI discs are in fact National Council of Teachers of English. I don't
> know if these predate the ten-inch red label discs, some of which I believe
> were dubbed from pregrooved aluminums. The ERPIs are very good quality, sound
> first generation..no tell-tale background noise as if from film or 33rpm
> lacquers. They're in a series called Contemporary Poets and are numbers 7-14
> (I'm missing sides 9&  10). For what it's worth, the one Gertrude Stein disc I
> have is on the same label and in the same series, numbers 3&  4. The Caedmon lp
> had 6 tracks so Stein could be on numbers 1/2 and 5/6, with Frost following.
> (And no, the Gertrude Stein sides don't have the same type of matrix numbers,
> although they still look as if they could have been cut by the same studio.)
>
> dl
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