[78-L] 55 RPM?

[David Lennick]

P.S. Let me know if you want these, Mike..I have a package going to you and 
I'll just use a different-shaped pizza box.

dl

On 3/27/2012 9:06 AM, David Lennick wrote:
> Quiet, isn't it? And the speeds are printed in green directly on the lacquer,
> in the same style as the green Presto logo. No paper labels, no writing or
> carving on the discs.
>
> dl
>
> On 3/27/2012 1:47 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>> 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