First orthophonic - some questions.

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bigshot
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Re: First orthophonic - some questions.

Post by bigshot »

Red Seal De-Luxe records are standard vinyl records. They would turn into nice plastic streamers if you tried to play them on an acoustic phonograph. Blue Columbia is shellac. Those are fine to play on a Credenza

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Re: First orthophonic - some questions.

Post by OrthoFan »

RE: Red Seal Deluxe records, this may be of interest to some: "The Red Seal De Luxe Series: A Discography of RCA's Red Vinyl 78s" available to ARSC members at http://www.arsc-audio.org/journal-index ... on=findall

Article Preview -- https://www.questia.com/library/journal ... y-of-rca-s

As others have stated, these records should NOT be played on an acoustic phonograph using a steel needle. It might be possible to play one, using a thorn or fiber needle, providing the weight of the sound box is reduced using a counter-weight, but I don't think I'd chance even that.

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