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Old 23rd Sep 2021, 8:24 pm   #13
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Default Re: 78rpm vinyl why format dropped?

They are surprisingly difficult to dispose of playing wise. I have several PYE NIXA vinyl 78s and just as an experiment I tried to ruin one by playing first on a standard wind up gramophone about 20 times then on some very early thunderweight pick ups from the late 1920s literally dozens of times!
The record surface looked terrible but it still played just about acceptably.

As Ted mentioned many thousands of shellac records were recalled for salvage during the war. There is a vintage film of a guy smashing up thousands of records. It may have been at EMI. J.
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