[78-L] Red Deccas

[David Lennick]

On 10/18/2011 5:34 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Michael Biel wrote:
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> Is it real red like a regular colored record or is it just slightly
> translucent showing reddish purple when light shines through?  The
> latter type were the unbreakable Deccas pressed in the former Vogue
> picture disc factory which Decca took over.  The ones I've seen like
> this are U.S. of course.
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> The one I have is red;  the grooved area is translucent but the area around the label is transparent.  Holding it up beside a Canadian Red Plastic Victor, (Stokowski's Brahms 1), the Victor is a lighter red than the Decca and less transparent, (almost but not quite opaque).  Holding it up beside a US Red Plastic Victor, (Paganini Quartet's Debussy Quartet), the Victor is a darker red than the Decca but equally transparent.
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> My copy of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Concerto with List is on black records.
>
> db

I'll have to dig out my Rachmaninoff set. It might be in storage. One 
interesting thing is a notice pasted or printed inside the album, advising 
users not to play the records with an old fashioned soundbox. I'm sure this 
wasn't available for long..this is the only copy I've seen and I've had it 
since the 60s.

dl