https://gracyk.com/forum/forum.php?id=8 Just another bbPress community en-US Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:36:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://gracyk.com/forum/search.php https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=166#post-228 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:29:44 +0000 SunnyDaySmiles 228@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Hi All,</p> <p>I have inherited 62 78s and 13 33s. I would like to sell them all as a group. I am more interested in just finding a good home for them...</p> <p>But maybe they are not what anybody wants? I have made a good list and in case anyone is interested I can email it to you. </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=131#post-161 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:25:19 +0000 alexander 161@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>various lps in sleeves:<br /> -Hungarian Rhapsody no 2 -(black label)<br /> -Caprice Poetic- Alfred Cortot (brown label)<br /> -Nocture in e lfat- Misca Elman (brown label)<br /> -Lo Here the Gentle Lark- Amelia Gali Curci- (brown label)<br /> -Ave maria- Tito Schipa- brown label<br /> -prelude in G minor- Sergei rachmaninoff-brownlabel<br /> -valse in e flat major- as above<br /> -serenada-Mischa Elman-red label<br /> -Humoresque (dvorak)- Maud Powell-red label</p> <p>Also by Decca (Deccalite) 1The Ugly Duckling 2The Kings new clothes<br /> Danny Kaye and Gordon jenkins and his orchestra</p> <p>-Bluebird Childrens RCA Victor 78's -I wish I had" charles green and Jimmy Layden</p> <p>contact in Canada, posted Oct 3 2011, </p> <p>Serious offers only. Complete list uppon request </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=121#post-151 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 10:14:10 +0000 ceintsdebakelite 151@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I wanted to inform you that I just created a blog devoted to 78 rpm. I focus mainly on non-western music. You can discover this blog here : <a href="http://ceintsdebakelite.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">http://ceintsdebakelite.wordpress.com</a></p> <p>Welcome !</p> <p>Ceints de bakélite, Paris-France </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=116#post-144 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:47:23 +0000 judytrillium 144@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>I have 4 out of 5 exercise records made in Chicago from 1920 to 1922. The name on the front is "Wallace" On the inside of the sleeves are pictures of Wallace doing exercises, with his voice set to music counting out the repetitions. The label is blue and says "Reducing Record"<br /> Does anyone know anything about these?<br /> I would be interested in selling them. </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=111#post-138 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:44:52 +0000 kekoa 138@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Trying to get information about some old 78 records possibly produced in Austria under Elite Special label, Harmona Serie. Songs are in German. </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=100#post-121 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:09:43 +0000 smasher50 121@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>i was going through my mothers attic and found a victor 78 of sousa's with stars and strips forever on one side and under the double eagle march on the other.on the label there is a number 35286-a also $1.25 in usa is printed on label. just wanted to know how old and what its worth might be. </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=76#post-89 Thu, 05 May 2011 21:18:34 +0000 Guy Walker 89@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>One of the great 78 rpm collectors in the United States is without a doubt R. Peter Munves who worked for RCA. I had a short but meaningful relationship with Mr. Munves during which he told me cactus needles SHED FIBRES INTO SHELLAC GROOVES AND BY FRICTION ARE WELDED/BURNED IN. He says this accounts for the scratchy sounds of English HMV; that everyone in England used cactus needles, that's why they are so noisy. Now, to his credit, I must say, I have many HMV records that were imported from the UK for radio performance only and they are less noisy than ones brought into the USA taxed and many second hand brought over in suitcases but from what information I have attempted to gain on the subject I cannot find one bit of information to substantiate R. Peter Munves' claim. </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=72#post-83 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 19:33:14 +0000 gwz 83@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Hi, I new here. I have a large 78 collection. BUT, I have 8 -12" Victor records of voice and sound experiments by Bell Labsfrom the late 20s.<br /> I was just wondering if anyone of had seen something like these before? </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=60#post-69 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:34:20 +0000 BETHREIN 69@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>Hi - I'm new to this site, and I have a bunch of 78's that were my father's - mostly classical. The one I am researching at the moment was made in England. It is one-sided and is embossed with "His Master's Voice" on the back. The label is very hard to read - it is red with gold print. The # is 2-52667 - FERNANDO DE LUCIA - Se it mio noma saperv vai Bromere - I believe it is from The Barber of Seville. </p> <p>Does anyone know anything about this record? I haven't been able to find much on the internet. Thanks! Beth in NJ </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=47#post-54 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:31:25 +0000 mike33 54@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>This album has been in my colllection since it was given to me in 1952. It stars the late Carlos Ramirez (famous Hollywood baritone) as Figaro. Giuseppe Bamboschek conducts the Victor Symphony Orchestra. I am trying to find information about this recording which bears the numbers 11-8190-A, 171363 on the label and imprinted on the margin. The album is inter-leaved with the opera story and libretto but there is no information about where or when it was recorded. I know that SONY has aquired Victor &amp; RCA Victor companies but have been unable to find any reference to this particular recording. </p> <p>I would greatly appreciate any help I could get on tracking this album which, by now, I have to consider as rare. </p> https://gracyk.com/forum/topic.php?id=37#post-44 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:41:38 +0000 dalev 44@https://gracyk.com/forum/ <p>I inherited a 600+ opera record collection 78's from my grandfather. He lived in New Orleans and was respected as an authority on operas of his time. Many of his writings are in the Tulane University library. He has hand writtena 3x5 alphbetized index card file totaling about 300 cards. About 300 of these records are in individual dark blue jackets. This group is numbered from 1-280 and corresponds to their respective card. The other approximate 300 records are in old 10-set binders. Most of these records are red seal Victors. I noticed one record was transparent red which read Victor red seal deluxe. There where more 2-sided records than 1-sided records. Some have black Victor labels on them. Other labels were Columbia and other different ones. There are about as many artists as there are cards. My grandfather listened to his records so I would imagine they are in very good condition not mint or excellent. Myself, not knowing foreign languages, guess that these are mostly Italian and some French records. On some of these records he handwrote the year 1915-1940. My grandfather Albert Voss passed away in 1965.<br /> These records and album sets are in 8 boxes. I will sell all or none of them for a fair market value price. If interested please contact me at my email address.</p> <p>Dale Voss<br /> <a href="mailto:dalev7@comcast.net">dalev7@comcast.net</a> </p> 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=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=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>