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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 273905, member: 55"]Yes - LP - Long-Playing - was at one time a new invention; prior to that, records were most commonly 78 rpm, but many were in 10" or 12" sizes that we now would associate with the 33 1/3 rpm LPs.</p><p>those were pretty limited in playing time; hence the term "record album" which originally referred to something similar to a photo album, which would hold the dozen or so 78s necessary to record a symphony.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were some "78 LP" intermediate steps that tried to get slightly longer playing times by compressing the grooves, but these were not very successful.</p><p>As I recall....</p><p>(My Mom saved and passed on to me a record player with a 78 setting, made in the 80s, with the note that "this will be rare and valuable someday because nobody will be making 78 record players anymore." She was right, except I'm not sure it is valuable. But at least I can play 78s.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 273905, member: 55"]Yes - LP - Long-Playing - was at one time a new invention; prior to that, records were most commonly 78 rpm, but many were in 10" or 12" sizes that we now would associate with the 33 1/3 rpm LPs. those were pretty limited in playing time; hence the term "record album" which originally referred to something similar to a photo album, which would hold the dozen or so 78s necessary to record a symphony. There were some "78 LP" intermediate steps that tried to get slightly longer playing times by compressing the grooves, but these were not very successful. As I recall.... (My Mom saved and passed on to me a record player with a 78 setting, made in the 80s, with the note that "this will be rare and valuable someday because nobody will be making 78 record players anymore." She was right, except I'm not sure it is valuable. But at least I can play 78s.)[/QUOTE]
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