Broken Records

[paradroid1793]

In alignment with the post "Phonograph Items we have broken", I was going through my collection skimming out records I have not listened to in a long time or do not enjoy.

Halfway through the stack I was reminded of my copy of Ostrich Walk / At the Jazz Band Ball from the ODJB, a personal favourite! Unfortunately, I got it in my first month of collecting, and did not know how fragile 78's were, and when I dropped the record it left a nice chip on both sides. Still plays, just missing about 5-10~ seconds.

I've also broken a 7" Columbia through carelessness, and my father broke an Edison blank by clamping it with pliers.

What about you?

[GroverOverton08]

I cracked a Champion record through a drop. Large chip and a crack at 5 o'clock.

[Inigo]

I've broken a few records, only a few, in 47 years. I remember vividly the first one I broke, a 12" of the latest Andre Kostelanetz orchestral arrangements in 78rpm, Tea For Two and Sometimes I'm Happy/I know that you know medley, a very beautiful late Columbia recording (December 1950) issued in Spain in 1952 by the Regal label of Gramófono Odeon, EMI subsidiary. In Spain. These were normal shellac not laminated as the US originals. I was young and inexperienced, and carried the record in a plastic bag hanging from my hand... when a wind whirl waved the bag and the record inside against my knee, and the record broke in two halves. It was a pristine copy, acquired from an old record store that still had 1950s stock of 78s left. I glued the two halves together and played it with the galloping horse... until I found another copy many many years later. I still remember the frustration!