Replying to a message of TOM WALKER to BOB ACKLEY:

 BA>> Perhaps.  However, buried in this pile of bakelite, vinyl and lacquer
 BA>> (and audio CDs ) are two brand spanking new copies of Kate
 BA>> Smith's 1938 recording of 'God Ble America' on the original Victor
 BA>> 78 rpm disks.  Also some brand spanking new Bing Cros and the
 BA>> Andrews Sisters 78 rpm Decca recordings from a bit later.  *None* of
 BA>> those are going to get played by me.  I also suspect they're worth a
 BA>> bit more than I paid for t 35 years ago (a second hand store in
 BA>> Bellevue, NE, had acquired the back room unsold stock of an old
 BA>> record store that had closed years before, and I bought all of it
 BA>> for a single price - if memory serves about fifty bucks for four
 BA>> apple crates full of brand new 78s)

 TW> Well if one can locate one of them you can play them on a Laser
 TW> Turntable. NOTHING excpept the light beam touches the record grove.

Would be nice if I *had* a laser turntable, but I don't.  And since they cost several
grand it's unlikely that I'm going to have one any time soon.  In any case it isn't
necessary to play the 78s as most of those recordings are also on LPs and CDs.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+