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

[Mike Harkin]

Yes, the Testament CD sez 12:50.  Years ago, before selling my 78s and vinyl, I put as much of my choicest stuff onto cassette.  Ordinarily 7 30cm 78s fit nicely on a
60 min cassette, but I couldn't get that set to fit for love
nor money.  Ended up putting Vol. 2-7 on 90min ones, filled up with the Mozart 'Haydn' quartets by various
ensembles.  Don't know how they did it without affecting
playback pitch somehow adversely, but there it is....

M in P 



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 From: Dave Burnham <burnhamd at rogers.com.invalid>
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Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2014 9:33 PM
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Well that is also very interesting. Are you saying there is almost 13 minutes of music on two 78 sides?  I didn't think that was possible even with unmodulated grooves. I have that set at home - must check that out. 

But I wasn't talking about the length of the recording, just the area of the
 disc taken up by the recording, although, of course, the two characteristics are correlated. 

db

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> On Jun 8, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Mike Harkin <xxm.harkin at yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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> From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com.invalid>
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> Sent: Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:28 PM
> Subject: [78-L] Most music area on a 78.
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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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