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From: gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: record speeds
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Date: Wed, 26-Sep-84 14:24:46 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 26 14:24:46 1984
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>>The first recordings and use of flat records (rather than drums) came from a
>>series of experiments performed by Bell Laboratories in the 1930's.

>>I don't know why specifically 78 rpms was selected.  Perhaps
>>it was related to the availability of electric drive motors which were
>>inexpensive at that time.

Apparently you've never seen 1920's wind-up 78-RPM flat disk players such as
my grandparents owned.  I've played many shellac flat 78's from the 20's (the
Grosvenor Library in Buffalo had a great collection when I was in high
school).
-- 
Gene E. Bloch (...!nsc!voder!gino)