[78-L] for Grey Gull history fans

[David Lennick]

Likewise..some sound quite decent, if over-modulated.

dl

On 11/21/2012 3:48 PM, jim brannen wrote:
> I found a few Grey Gulls in a shop in the 70s that looked like store stock. 1929-1930 issues and sounded very good. Little surface noise, but I have also found Madisons and VanDykes that were clean and unworn that sounded like they were pressed on GRAVEL!
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>   From: Ron L'Herault<lherault at bu.edu>
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> That one that Bruce put up on YouTube looked good and didn't sound noisy.
> I'm guessing that the material used to make the records didn't hold up as
> well as the material used on more expensive records.
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> Ron L
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> On 11/21/2012 3:09 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:
>> I'd love to get an overlay of an old map on a new one.  I'd go down
>> the expressway and toss a trashed GG on the highway in the appropriate
> area.
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> We've all made jokes about the quality and crappy sound of GG records, but
> Theodore Lyman Shaw always insisted his records were high quality and
> comparable to any major label's recordings.  Okay fine, public relations
> claims aside, why were GGs so bad... or is this only true for some of the
> pressings and not all?
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