[78-L] Most music area on a 78.

[Mike Harkin]

HMV DB1927 in Vol. 2 of the Haydn Quartet Society con-
tains op.33/6  on one record, with a total playing time of
just under 13 mins.  Don't remember if it had smaller than
usual labels, tho' I can recall seeing a few that did....  Elgar
comes to mind, possibly one of the symphonies.


Mike in Plovdiv



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I don't think this will be of any interest to Guiness but I think I've found a 78 which must be pretty close to being the record with the most music crammed on to it;  it is side three of Schubert's 5th symphony on English Decca conducted, (I think), by Jascha Horenstein.  This is the second half of the second movement and the record is a standard orange labled Decca with a normal sized small label.  The music comes to within 1/16th of an inch of the label all around.  A lot of players must have had a hard time playing this disc without hitting the end stop of the arm's travel.  My copy is in a manual sequence but the set must have been issued in a drop sequence as well and that would have been a challenge for a record changer.

I don't think everybody finds this kind of stuff interesting but I do.

db
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