A 78 Moment
What do you do with 25 boxes of shellac 78 records and a Victrola crank-powered turntable? I’ve been discovering my way through it, one disc at a time.
As I catalog the collection, I’ve been sharing video of the actual record playing as a Tweet or a Story on various social media sites, and I love to add little pieces of music history as I go. It’s a heart-project that helps soften the hard edges in some online spaces, builds community with other fans, and reconnects us with an analog reality.
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I was all about the images (still am!)… until someone gifted me a Victrola and a shellac 78 collection. There must be over 1000 discs, here, and I don’t recognize most of them. So let’s see what we’ve got, shall we? pic.twitter.com/VRWkprz7aH
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And these are the needles, which need to be replaced every song or three on the crank machine. The electric turntable 78 needle has a longer lasting sapphire tip.
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