Re: [Fwd: WQEW make your move])

[Brian Vita <brian_vita@cssinc.com>]

I stand corrected.  My owner question is where are you finding a "newer"
changer these days? ;-)

Brian

At 09:38 PM 12/31/98 -0500, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
>Brian Vita wrote:
>> 
>> How would you run 78's off of a changer.  Most of the 78's that I've seen
>> were fairly heavy shellac deals that were prone to chipping and cracking.
>> As they stacked they'd likely crack and slip on each other.  They were also
>> about twice the thickness of an LP.  Hopefully this guy has dubbed them
>> onto CD's or at the very least carts.
>
>Well, I still have the Philco radio-phonograph that my father bought in
>1947, with a 78-rpm changer.  The phonograph part doesn't work any more,
>unfortunately, but when it did, we played plenty of 78 rpm records on it,
>and they never cracked or chipped from the changer.  The chipping and
>cracking generally comes from accidents while taking them out or putting
>them away, not while they're on the changer.  
>
>I've also played 78s on newer changers, without much problem.  In fact,
>since the older 78-rpm records were rigid and less prone to warping than
>the later vinyl records, their was almost no problem with slippage.  I've
>had a lot more trouble playing LPs on changers than I ever did with the old
>78s.  However, I will say that newer changers are more designed for use
>with LPs or 45s and often don't work as well with 78s as earlier ones.
> 
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