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How to pick a stylus to play a 78-rpm record (www.vjm.biz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by kalkulat@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Insights into the kind of crap 78-rpm records were made of, and other scarce technical infos.

If you're not sure what 'a record' is, or haven't ever seen one, you're excused.

Oh, and by-the-way, 78 is the approximate number you get when you rotate a 46-tooth gear with a 3600 rpm motor. (60 cycles per second.)

Further wisdom such as this is found by the ton here: http://www.78rpmrecord.com/links.htm

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[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not many vinyl heads still around.

Playing 78’s is a niche within a niche.

[–] madsen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Vinyl has, AFAIK, been gaining a lot in popularity over the last 20 years. The last few years pressing plants have had trouble keeping up with demand — in part due to supply chain issues, but also because everyone and their grandma wants vinyl pressed.

[–] trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should check this out:

https://great78.archive.org/

The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides (~3 minute recordings) have been made on 78rpm discs. While the commercially viable recordings will have been restored or remastered onto LP’s or CD, there is still research value in the artifacts and usage evidence in the often rare 78rpm discs and recordings. Already, over 20 collections have been selected by the Internet Archive for physical and digital preservation and access. Started by many volunteer collectors, these new collections have been selected, digitized and preserved by the Internet Archive, George Blood LP, and the Archive of Contemporary Music.

[–] kalkulat@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a great service. I found several of his expertly-created 78 tunes on there that I hadn't heard in decades. (Some scarce stuff is almost never NOT available on 33 or 45rpm)

Another reason: Some people get deeper into multiple pieces of music because they like to compare performances of them. Fidelity doesn't matter a whole lot. You want to compare how some bands or singers performed a (non-hit) song recorded in the 1930s or 1950s. You listen around the fidelity. People in the 1950s made million-selling hits everyone heard on AM radio or 45s. Fidelity is over-rated.