Re: No LBC, Dizzy, Roe, etc

I guess it's time for this old lady (no comments or you die!) to join the
discussion. When I was a little girl, Mother bought a beautiful 16 speed
phonograph in an antique store in Portland. The cabinet was about 4' high, and
2' square, and made from beautifully carved oak. There was storage in the base
for the records, which came with it, and a crank on the side to wind it up. The
16 rpm records were about the same size as a 78, but much thicker.
As far as 8 tracks go, we have several that work, including an 8 track
player/recorder, and several boxes of tapes. I still buy LP's, because some of
the artists that I like are not available in any other format. I take the cuts
that I like and record them on cassettes for those places where radio reception
is non-existant.
Kate

IfixMGs@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/27/00 9:56:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> toyman@digitex.net writes:
>
> << was the 16 speed on the record players for?? >>
> I've never seen  music recordings in 16 (actually 16 1/2)  but  it was used
> for some voice recordings -  wire service pressings of news broadcasts,  and
> certain dictation machines used slow speed - less quality but more space
> available for data.
> Mark Childers