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

[DAVID BURNHAM]

I just checked quickly and can't find vol. 2 of the Haydn Quartets.  I easily found vol. 1 and vols. 3, 4 and 5.

I always thought John Cage's "4:31" was determined because that was the theoretical limit of an un modulated 12 inch 78 side.

db


On Sunday, June 8, 2014 4:17:53 PM, Mike Harkin <xxm.harkin at yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
 

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>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....
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>M in P 
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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. 
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>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. 
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>> On Jun 8, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Mike Harkin <xxm.harkin at yahoo.com.invalid> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Mike in Plovdiv
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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.
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>> I don't think everybody finds this kind of stuff interesting but I do.
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>> db
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