Re: [Rollei] GX/FX selftimer??now record speeds!

[Bob Shell <bob >]

on 6/4/02 3:24 AM, Richard Knoppow at dickburk   wrote:

> None of these systems would have been practical without considerably work on
> low-mass-high compliance pickups. The sort of thing used on 78's would have
> destroyed an LP or EP in one play.

I used to listen to 78s on my great aunt's old crank-wind Victrola.  It used
"needles" which were made of bamboo and had to be replaced frequently.  They
were supposed to make the records last longer than the alternate steel
needles.  

Bob

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