[78-L] 55 RPM?

[David Lennick]

On 3/27/2012 1:32 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
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> On 3/27/2012 10:57 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>> 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
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> Yes, they will be good for the information.  And I like pepperoni.
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> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

You jest, but there's a wholesale club here in town that sells different size 
pizza boxes in bulk, like 50 for about $15. I can't even buy pre-cut cardboard 
dividers that cheap.

dl

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>> 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
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>>> 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
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