/r/78rpm
A place for collectors and enthusiasts of music on 78 rpm records to talk, share and show off! Edison, Pathé and Berliner records are all welcome, too!
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I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze - Art Karle and His Boys (1936) (transfer in comments)
16:14 UTC
Elvis Presley 78
03:19 UTC
How to cut a Victrola wax master?
I'm working on an art project at the moment which involves the homebrew production of a 78 of a field recording. The sound quality of the output isn't as important as the core premise that as much as possible the product should be locally sourced as raw material or waste material.
My intention is to cut the master in locally produced beeswax and then electroplate that with the old copper wire stripped from my house. I think (hesitantly!) that I have most of process worked out, but am a bit stumped on the wax master cutting.
Does anyone have advice on a DIY method for achieving that? Or does anyone know someone in Ireland with a wax recorder? Or could you even point me in the direction of detailed drawings or info on the wax mastering machines?
06:47 UTC
"Je Serais Vrai A Quelqu'un J'aime" - Cleoma Breaux Falcon
00:55 UTC
Post ur favorite 78
I remember when I was 13 brute force learning the solo on guitar by repeating the solo part again and again
00:30 UTC
Searching for a record: 1934 by Bob Causer And His Cornellians called "Were you foolin'"
I've been on the hunt for this record for a while and have nowhere else to resort but reddit. It's a shellac record 10 Inch, 78 Rpm. if anyone has this record, or any information on where I can look next, please let me know.
23:00 UTC
Welp, I just broke this sweet little guy 😢
18:24 UTC
Help with inherited records
Hi, I just inherited an Edison player and one box of thick edison records and another of 78s. They have mold on them and I was wondering how to best clean them, they're a part of family history and I really want to make sure I can clean them and preserve them. Are there any recommendations on how to clean them off and hopefully keep the mold from coming back?
21:01 UTC
Horace Wright- O’Brien Is Tryin To Talk Hawaiian, Recorded 9/16/1916
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14:28 UTC
Searching for My Grandmother’s 78 records
My Grandmother was a classical singer and made many recordings. There may be 6-9 78 records out there. When my grandparents were moving into a higher level of care around 2019 my mother did not find the Records. She had given them to my grandparents 🤦♀️ because they said they wanted to have them digitized. I think she didn’t understand their level of their cognitive decline at the time. This was in Burlington NC. I want to search for these 78’s if I could even recover one of them I would call that a huge win. Any suggestions? Places to start? Her name at the time of the recordings was Shirley Conklin and they were classical style songs.
21:51 UTC
That Tumble-down Shack In Athlone by Sterling Trio, Victor 18545-B, Recorded Feb. 6, 1919.
18:36 UTC
My friend overheard me talking about the 78rpm hunting and came up with this collage poem.
02:40 UTC
I'm looking for a 78
A few months ago on discogs there was a copy of La Vie En Rose by Louis Armstrong with the Decca label and that was the only one of it's kind I could find anywhere online. It was $100 so I was going to wait until I had some extra money to buy it but it was sold last month. If anyone has one to sell I would like to know. Thank you
00:19 UTC
Where are you from?
The Netherlands
20:48 UTC
Say the Word - Luis Russell and His Orchestra (1931) (transfer in comments)
16:12 UTC
"I Woke Up One Morning In May" - Didier Hebert
15:07 UTC
What should I do with (heavily) damaged records?
I’m a casual collector of 78s and as a result, I am sometimes gifted record collections that people no longer want. Unfortunately, many of these collections have been kept in bad conditions, that have led to the records becoming heavily damaged. Some of them are scratched to the point where the record sounds like it belongs on the soundtrack to a horror movie.
Since I have limited space, I don’t want to keep records that are basically unplayable. That being said, I don’t want to throw them out, or dump them at a thrift store, if there are other options, given that many are quite old and feel like part of history. As far as I’m aware, there isn’t much of a 78 specific community where I live (Ottawa area), but I’m new here, so I could have just missed it.
I was wondering if anyone had advice as to what I should do with these records.
18:46 UTC
Is shipping 78s worth it
If I had a shellac record off discogs shipped from who knows where, what are the chances the record shatters before it gets here?
14:17 UTC
I got these a week back $1 each. Did I score?
I got these with others - (Zonophone, Okeh, Decca, Columbia, and Pathe) in a bundle bargain at a antique mall. Are these records as they call; "Victor Grand Prize" records? Are they rare, or special? Was I meant to get them this cheap? Did I actually score on some finds? All in all, I know nothing 'bout them. If someone could fill me in about these records, that would clear up a lot! Any info is appreciated! :)
23:30 UTC
Thinking on making my own 78 record book. Has anyone else made one?
I’m thinking about buying a heavy duty binder from Walmart, and some 10inch sleeves from bags unlimited, and bolting the sleeves to the spine of the binder like in the old 78 books.
I’m wondering if this would work, and how many records I should store in them. I would love to hear from someone who’s done this or seen it done.
Thanks!
19:15 UTC