I'd love to see a complete list of PT's too, Rick. Kurt Nauck has auctioned off the only 'complete' sets of Vogues and now Victor picture discs (including a fabulous copy of the Whiteman PT) over the last couple of auctions... I wonder if he has a complete set of PT's as well (or knows someone who does).
I agree with Peter that maybe I should cut RCA some slack since it was the Depression and everything... But they released a 12" one-sided PT with 4 minutes of music on it at about half the volume and twice the noise a 12" 78 would've had. I'm just not ready to concede that their hearts were really in the project at all. Nauck's assistant Brian told me he likes to use a "28 x 9 truncated elliptical" that he got from Expert Stylus for PT's (not sure what the numbers mean, maybe .28mil x .9mil?), but he also uses it for post-'39 78's and some other things... I'm betting someone somewhere has to know the exact (intended) dimensions of the orange-shank chromium-tipped needle RCA intended for use with PT's. Aside from that I like to be prepared to play any record with minimum groove wear and best sound, I'm really curious what these old 33rpm's could really sound like in their best light. Did RCA really think they were onto something, or was it just more marketing crap to push sales through the Depression (like many feel the picture discs were)? I noticed no mention of LP or PT's in the ad Peter found on eBay, though I did see a number of multi-78 album sets, some of which I have... I wonder if the LP experiment had bitten the dust just before the ad was composed? thanks for the input, Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Chester" <[email protected]> > There must be a complete list of all Program Transcriptions, someplace. I'd like to see it. > I still need (want) 2 of the Whiteman PT discs, but one is that picture version, which I will > never be able to afford ! > --- [email protected] wrote: > > this is a fun topic. > > > > a little bit of googlization turns up this link to a 1932 ad for the > > RAE-84, which cost a goodly amount ($310). the ad includes records, but i > > can't see if they're LPs or not. > > > > http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7608096342 > > > > calling Doug Houston...he's encyclopedic on this topic...
