MeghanIsMe

I bought a really pretty set of Victor Red Seal recordings of Ravel's Bolero a couple days ago at a thrift store. They're the old shellac records; the hard, brittle material that predates vinyl records. I hadn't realized that almost all (maybe all?) of those shellac records are actually 78s. Somehow, I thought that, because they were 12" discs, they'd be 33 1/3s. I put them on my turntable and there was...a lot of static and some strange, low-pitched noises. I set it to 45 rpm and it sounded...*kiiiiiind* of like Bolero.

I need to get a copy of that on CD. It's a really soothing piece of music, despite it's associations with both The House on the Rock and a potential progressive and fatal neurological dysfunction.

I have little to no interest in the equipment to play 78s. Vinyl is complicated enough. I guess I'll redonate them?

restoman, I wish I was still close enough to come over and spin them up on your Victrola.... *hugs*