[78-L] Transcription info sought

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What is "crazy paving"?

joe salerno


On 2/9/2014 4:37 PM, RUSSELL BARNES wrote:
> Ron,
> They appear to have been stored in the original card sleeves of the BBC.    It looks as though they have been stored in a shed or outhouse.   They have 'cloudy' area across the grooves of the cellulose.   Some 'crazy paving' too.   Some have flakes of cellulose coming away from the outside edge.
>
> I haven't played them yet.  It requires some thought.
>
> Russ B
>
>
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>
> Why do you say playability is in doubt?  I'd love to hear the Jolson
> material, BTW.
>
> Ron L
>
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> Hello all,
>
> This week (here in the UK) I purchased - in a public auction house - twelve
> Radio transcription discs  17, 16 and 12 inch dia - all said to have
> originated in the BBC, record library London.
>
> They appear to be mainly direct cut to acetate and are in the region
> of sixty years old.   They've been in store for a considerable time and
> their playability is much in doubt.
>
> One set of 17 inch (a 33 revs) is a programme - dated March 1945 - called
> 'Jazz is where you find it'.    Could this be a USA programme copied by the
> BBC.
>
> Two 16 inch discs with a plain blue label has the letters W.O.R across it
> and dated 10th January, 1946.  It has the programme Salute to Jolson  - on
> four sides.  These disc I assume are American.
>
> Any one any ideas please ?.
>
> Russ Barnes
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Joe Salerno