[78-L] TW Musicraft N7 set

[Iñigo Cubillo]

Another rare thing I’ve noticed, which I indeed asked years ago, and I forgot about it.
THis is the annoying bad quality of Musicraft pressings of Teddy Wilson set N7, records 369-372 of 1946. 
Why do they sound so terrible? They’re shiny 78s that sound like old Paramounts played to the bones!
When child I bought one of those italian LPs with a mix of TW, Art Tatum and Earl Hines. TW tracks sound 
terrible, and I blamed on the cheap LP. What a surprise 25 years later when I acquired the original Musicraft
set (probably later pressings, as even the labels look different, bright red, more modern) 
just to see that the italian LP was a perfect dub of a terrible original pressing!
I’ve also picked some spanish Odeon (HMV) copies. Pity that my favourite (Strange Interlude) broke
down falling from the gramophone lid where I’d deposited it, just as I forgot the record was there and I 
opened the lid... Sniffff !!!
Those spanish Odeons are pressings from parts coming through british Parlophone. And those don’t sound so bad; even I 
remember that they don’t have this terrible Musicraft sound. They britishers must have been taken from original metals,
while indeed the late Musicraft pressings are bad pressings (on soft good 1948 or so shellac).
Must I try to get an older set, nearer to the original 1946? I really love those records, and it’s very annoying each time 
I play them.
Iñigo