https://gracyk.com/forum/forum.php?id=8 Just another bbPress community en-US Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:26:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://gracyk.com/forum/search.php https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=23#post-27 Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:53:17 +0000 david 27@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Hello, I have a small online record store and recently acquired several boxes of 78s, most classical but also some jazz and some miscellaneous genres. I have no experience with 78s and would be grateful for any insights into the value of what I have listed for sale. I still have several boxes to go through and will be adding more in the days and weeks ahead. The link is here:</p> <p><a href="http://classicvinyl.biz/78/rpm" rel="nofollow">http://classicvinyl.biz/78/rpm</a></p> <p>Thanks very much for any feedback. Regards, David Hertzberg, Washington DC </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=21#post-25 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:23:39 +0000 Joao Fialho 25@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Hello</p> <p>I'm João Fialho from Portugal and i'm doing a work to a Master degree in Museology, and i have to make the analisys of a Columbia record.</p> <p>so i looking for help.</p> <p>can anyone help me? i would like to know were was the Columbia factory in UK. What mean the codes in the record, and the stamps (i supose they are related with royalties.</p> <p>The record is a 78 with Faust and Carmen Music, made in England... and the is no date in it.</p> <p>i could post an image if it helps... i'm realy in need of Help.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>João Fialho </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=19#post-22 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:44:11 +0000 Bunny 22@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Anybody know if these 78s are worth anything? </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=16#post-17 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:16:39 +0000 leo7128 17@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Hello, my name is Michelle. I have some old 78 rpm's I was going through. I have one that I am having an issue with. The record label is Castle Records (unsure which Castle records) it’s a dark blue label. side C-14A is Honeymoon (Lucy M. Grady - Lew Tobin) Vocalist: Bobby Linn Orchestra: Herbert Preston side C-14B is In Cherry Blossom Time (Jarrell H. Flemings - Lew Tobin) Vocalist: Bobby Linn Orchestra: Herbert Preston. I would love to find out the date of this recording and which Castle records. Any help would be appreciated. </p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Michelle Seifried </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=14#post-15 Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:05:40 +0000 Stan 15@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>"Graying" is a common problem with old records usually attributed to playing with used needles. Records that were recorded with the singer close to the horn - which produces a nice, forward sound - appear to be more vulnerable.<br /> My question is, does graying get worse if you play such records but make sure to use fresh needles? The blasting that occurs can make a record unlistenable when played on a modern turntable with a diamond stylus, but is often less pronounced when playing them on a Victrola </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=6#post-6 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:43:12 +0000 hawaiidisc 6@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>"Upon the United States’ involvement in World War II, shellac (the main ingredient in record production) became strictly rationed to be used for the war effort. In Hawaii, this meant the end of what was then the only local record company, “Hawaiian Transcription Productions” (HTP). Bill Fredlund, who had since the late 1930’s been mostly unsuccessful in the Hawaiian record business with his “Leo Kupina’i Studios” (lkS), finally got a break in 1944, when he discovered a forgotten cache of shellac in an old Honolulu warehouse.</p> <p>He speedily shipped it to California along with other ingredients needed in the record-making process (including large amounts of sugar), and so began Bell Records (not to be confused with an earlier, by then defunct, mainland label with the same name). Fredlund hired experienced engineer Young O. Kang, and began recording locally, competing well with the major Mainland and European labels in sales. The output of Bell seems to be mostly tourist-oriented, thus the label tends to be largely overlooked by record collectors today. However, one of their earliest recording sessions, issued in 1945, absolutely breaks the mold. It was of a Tahitian group lead by George “Tautu” Archer, consisting of a pahu (Tahitian bass drum) player (playing two different sized drums), a guitar player, and male chanting. Little to nothing is known about Archer, only that his first two recordings, “Toreau” and “Ama Ama,” for the lack of a better term, “really cook.” They have a sense of both the islands and the Mainland; of the old traditions, and the youth and flavor of “modernity.”</p> <p>-- Jeff Weiss</p> <p>FROM:</p> <p><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/06/frank-fairfield-starts-new-label-releases-rare-gramophone-records-compilation-unveils-new-mp3.html" rel="nofollow">http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/06/frank-fairfield-starts-new-label-releases-rare-gramophone-records-compilation-unveils-new-mp3.html</a> </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=5#post-5 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:32:07 +0000 hawaiidisc 5@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Anyone interested in buying these uncommon Hawaiian recordings from the Leo Kupina'i Studio???</p> <p><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/45314509/vintage-bell-records-honolulu-10-inch" rel="nofollow">http://www.etsy.com/listing/45314509/vintage-bell-records-honolulu-10-inch</a></p> <p>Additional photos available upon request.</p> <p>will consider reasonable offers</p> <p>Thank for your interest! </p>