Peelenium frenzy!

[lorcan58]

I'm pretty sure they had 78s by 1900, although from what I remember of the Peelenium the earliest entries were virtually unlistenable because of the surface noise. You could even hear each revolution of the disc expressed as a wobble in the music.

I think Peel played real 78s for the Pig's Big 78, but surely the 78s from 1900 would have been far too valuable to place in the hands of a DJ? I imagine the BBC library would have transcribed them to some digital format?

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, MARK LUETCHFORD <M.Luetchford@...> wrote:
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> a real labour of love -many thanks - do we know what format he played the 1900s - presume he pillaged the bbc library for wax cylinders!
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>  From: lorcan58 <lorcan58@...>
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Sunday, 29 January 2012, 16:47
> Subject: [peel] Re: Peelenium frenzy!
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> That's a very fine bit of work. I went straight to 1922 for the piano roll version of "The Sheik of Araby" - what must be the first type of digital sound recording ever, and sounding just a ssharp today as it did 90 years ago. I wonder if our CDs will still be playable after 90 years?
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> Lorcan
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "so_it_goes_2512" <so_it_goes_2512@> wrote:
> > 4) Finally, just for your amusement, I have spent the last three
> > months compiling (with help from the supreme talents of Steve W) a
> > complete (as far as possible) Video Gallery of the Peelenium songs,
> > and it can be accessed from the main page on the Wiki
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