[78-L] 55 RPM?

[Michael Biel]

This is the last message I've gotten from the list for two days and I've 
been wanting to answer it and ask questions, but I don't know if others 
have already done so.  So this is in the form of a list test, but also 
to say that I have heard rumors of the BBC using 55 RPM.  If there are 
no labels, do you mean paper labels and that this form is mechanically 
printed on the lacquer?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 3/25/2012 5:51 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> I've just found a pair of 12" EMIDISC lacquers, no idea of the date but the
> material is somebody's private family recording..what's intriguing is that
> printed on the discs, which do not have labels, are speed options to be
> circled. And the options are 33 and 55. (The discs are cut at 78.) Were there
> disc cutters that operated at 55RPM? I've encountered this speed on a few
> hundred discs cut by a collector in Montreal in the 40s, but I thought he might
> have fiddled to get that speed, to get more onto the discs (some were labelled
> 55, others 56).
>
> dl
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