 Why is it important to preserve 78rpm recordings? As audio preservation expert George Blood explains, "78rpm discs were the way we learned about each other and entertained the world." https://blog.archive.org/2024/08/26/vanishing-culture-on-78s/ #VanishingCulture 4 comments
 @internetarchive 78's had been replaced with 33 LPs when I was a kid, but 78s were still common. In the classical and jazz worlds, it seemed that the artists who recorded on 78s had more imagination and spirit than those who later recorded on 33's - the 78 performances were often far, far better than the 33 performances of the same piece. As an example compare the energetic, jazzy, Stowkowski 78 performance of "The Plow That Broke the Plains" with the pathetic 33 version done by Mariner.  @internetarchive Thank you for everything you do! A couple of years ago I found a new favorite on your site - it was an old record from the 1920s recorded in Cuba. I never would’ve discovered it had your organization not preserved it |
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My old record player had support for 78rpm, but I never saw any 78rpm records as a kid. All I saw were 45rpm and 33rpm. Even the "half-speed mastered" albums I had were 33rpm