Dale H. Cook wrote: >On 11/11/2019 6:41 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > >> 78RPM? > >Larry - > >You must be a young whippersnapper. Paul said vinyl, and 78s are almost >always shellac. The major exceptions were 78s pressed during and shortly >after WWII, when shellac was in short supply, and some were pressed in >vinyl. :-)
Those shellac discs were notoriously fragile. For example, if you were to be at a party and accidentally sit on a pile of 78's by the famed Scots accordionist Jimmy Shands you would certainly earn the wrath of Richard Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eNbmcVXtRM -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
