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13 Aug 17 - 03:55 PM (#3871449) Subject: Folklore: Everyone aware of this? From: GUEST,?? http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/arts-culture/item/106319-philly-company-digitizes-collection-of-25000-old-records-and-growing-free-to-download |
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13 Aug 17 - 04:33 PM (#3871461) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: Jeri Twenty-five thousand songs recorded onto 78RPM discs in the early 20th century have been released online, for free. Just a part of it. I still have a 2'+ stack of 78 records here that I haven't been able to listen to since, oh, 196-something. Not that they're all that cool - my ancestors' taste in music was mostly big bands and Bing Crosby... come to think of it, that doesn't sound as scary as I used to think it was. |
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13 Aug 17 - 05:38 PM (#3871471) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: Stilly River Sage Thanks for pointing out this resource. |
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13 Aug 17 - 05:40 PM (#3871472) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: Jon Freeman On Jeri's bit, not sure any exist now. Did try to play the pile as a kid tough. A few I remember. Donkey Serenade Rachmaninov playing piano The Tree Bells (Compagnons De La Canson version - not this one ;-) ) Lazy Bones Trees Song of the Volga Boatman The Creed (I think in Russian) ... |
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13 Aug 17 - 05:51 PM (#3871474) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: Jeri I think I've heard most of them, Jon. They're selling record players now that will play the 78s, but having them in a digital library is so much easier. |
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13 Aug 17 - 06:16 PM (#3871478) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: Jon Freeman Yep. Sorry I drifted a bit. I don't think we have anything that would play them now. did have a relatively new "retro" player that did do 78 that may be under dad's bed but I didn't like as it hummed even when its off switch was off (maybe a bit of caution there for some of the things on the UK market these days - I don't know but we replaced it with an audio-tecnica turntable that doesn't do them and amp [the other was stand alone] Couldn't actually find anything that did the 78 that matched our price range, was autoplay[needed here] and didn't have "record wrecking" reviews - not that most of what we have on vinyl hasn't already been abused). |
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13 Aug 17 - 07:25 PM (#3871490) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: GUEST,Phil d'Conch 78s need a different stylus (needle) and cartridge than 33-45 LPs (microgroove.) It's both the RPM and the shape of the record groove. Jon: "...it hummed even when its off switch was off..." Did it have a separate DC "wall wart" power supply? They're awful. It's hard to do 45-78rpm right for under U$800 these days and that's just the turntable, no (pre)amp or speakers. |
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13 Aug 17 - 07:49 PM (#3871491) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: Jon Freeman Phil, I've known DC adaptors do that but this one was the plain (UK 240v) plug and the hum was inside the player. |
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13 Aug 17 - 09:01 PM (#3871495) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: Stilly River Sage I have a Victrola player and a stack of 78s from my great aunt's house. They're family relics. |
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14 Aug 17 - 01:04 AM (#3871517) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: GUEST,Bob Schwarer Somewhere around the house is a box of 78s I brought back from Japan in 1953. Now I need to find them. |
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14 Aug 17 - 02:42 AM (#3871522) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: DaveRo I have an LP by Moby Grape that has one track at 78rpm - "Just like Gene Autry - a foxtrot". It was 30 years later, after the invention of p2p file sharing, that I heard it at the correct speed. (It wasn't worth the wait.) |
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14 Aug 17 - 01:38 PM (#3871625) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: GUEST,Jim I I still sing a couple of songs I learnt from my grannie's old wind up gramophone - Big Grand Coulee Dam and She Wears Red Feathers. |
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17 Aug 17 - 11:39 AM (#3872172) Subject: RE: Digitized 78 Records From: GUEST,jim b a man of taste! |