[78-L] How_to_describe..?

[Michael Biel]

http://www.jackwolak.com/totoshapedpicturedisc-rosanna-item75930.aspx


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Subject: Re: [78-L] How_to_describe..?
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Date: Mon, June 04, 2012 10:01 pm
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

The shaped picture disc I am annoyed at myself for not getting, even
though I had two of them in my hands for only 4 pounds U.K. each back in
1983, is the Grammy Award disc by Toto of Rosana. It was at a record
show in Edenborough and I thought I could find them cheaper in London. 
I couldn't.

Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 

-------- Original Message --------
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Not to be confused with Rhino's weirdly shaped records, or the
> Andromeda Strain soundtrack which was octagonal. dl

On 6/4/2012 5:39 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> One of Berlinder's earliest disc experiments is on a metal disc that is
> nearly square. I bought a square record a couple of months ago. It was
> in the front of a bin and I thought it was the cover till I picked it
> up.
>
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] How to describe..?
> From: Peter Fraissinet<pf13 at cornell.edu>
> Date: Mon, June 04, 2012 3:57 pm
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
> Adobe Illustrator calls it a Rounded Rectangle (Rounded Square).
>
> Peter Fraissinet
> West Danby NY
> ________________________________________
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of David Lennick
> [dlennick at sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 3:51 PM
> To: 78L
> Subject: [78-L] How to describe..?
>
> What's the geometric name for something that is rounded and square at
> the same
> time? 4 flat sides and 4 rounded corners..it's an 11" record that
> someone
> trimmed to fit a 10" sleeve. (Don't worry, it was a plastic material.
> Although
> a CBC show once needed a square record as a prop, and Archives
> apparently tried
> to cut an old glass lacquer to proper specs..)
>
> dl

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