Tom Walker wrote in a message to Charles Angelich:

-> My only concern would be to not do damage to the original record.
-> I would use an LP needle for this as the irregularities in the
-> 16 rpm would have to be closely spaced to achieve fidelity at that
-> rpm.

 TW> Since the main purpose was for Transcriptions and Talking Books I
 TW> hardly think Fidelity even entered the picture.

It's been years since I saw one, but the only 16rpm transcriptions I ever
saw were at a classical music FM station.  They were _vertical_cut_ rather
than horizontal like records generally available to the public.

    Everett 
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