3½" Imperial mini Gramophone record
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Here's a bit of fun - a tiny 3½", 78rpm gramophone record of Jack Payne and his orchestra playing his signature tune 'Say it With Music'. This is just about the smallest size of gramophone record made and was produced in 1932 when Payne signed for Imperial records after leaving his position at the BBC and was most probably given away as a free sample or promotion.
On the other side is a message from Jack Payne himself and the matrix No. is C:123-3 / C:124-2. It's shown here playing on my 1930/1931 HMV101 gramophone.
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In my time people used to put these in their computers all the time.
where's the metal sleeve
Wow, I'm so totally impressed. Little did I even know that such a tiny 78 was ever made! I've learned something today. I bet that's a rare, little thing indeed. Nice. :)
Incredible! Tiny with great sound!!
very rare indeed i would love to have one of these floppy disc sized 78's!
0:22. Wow that record is so tiny! They are found in magazines for audio promos and stopped production in the mid 80s as flexi discs
That must've been the first record with a fade-out!
I think, they made this on free samplers often. Abrupt ending doesn't sound right.
I remember a sample record, was giveaway to a big radio/ record player cabinet, demonstrating passages from records and they didn't discovered fade out as smooth way to end a music.
Wow that is small. Gad you have the sleeve.
Alan's dad: Is most expensive for this classic history on that smaller records player. Lovely tune of the sound isn't, what the gem! ^_^
Blimey I ve got loads of these, been using them as coaster s for years!!! 😲😆
When I was young in the early 60's these little records were given out free at shows for demonstration purposes. I thought they were just toys. My first record player - I was about 10 in 1956 - looked like the one shown above. But then for Xmas in 1958 I was given a luxury player. Looked the same but it was electric - wasn't that grand. I often ran out of needles though.
😂😂😂 that kicks ass...love it!
also, very interesting and Good use of the rubber spindle cap disc stabilizer. That's brilliant.
The disc is so light that, if you place the sound box on it, the record stays still while the turntable spins underneath. The rubber cap acts as a 'hold down' to keep the record firmly in contact with the turntable.
organlover1968 indeed - or you may say the tracking pressure is so great ... either way. Cheers.!
Awesome
That was the first "CD"!
Beautiful record player and sound
I remember when they made 3 inch cd's. They never caught on.
This was a promotion disk to advertise he was making regular records for the label.
Little Wonder 5inch disks before WW1 and Woolworth in 1920s wre SOLD for 10¢ but were bargans so to speak, and NOT ads, and most fos for adults.
In the 50, apart from ads soud sheets in magazines. Some were like this promotions for record companies, but dome were editorial. I tember in 1961 one jad ZJFK inaugeral spcj
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Good sound but very short
So cute
Great
sounds pretty good for a tiny gramophone record
Nice sound from such a small record
Cool
Very very Beautiful thanks my Dear
Sounds great
Joey : Take it Dee Dee.
Dee Dee : 1 2 3 4
Cool... :)
Very very good
Wow
I've actually got one of these in my antiques cabinet. Is it worth anything?
Hi Matt, No great value I'm afraid. They come up regularly on Ebay in good (or better) condition for £15 - £20.
In my youth in the early 1960s, record players had an automatic action that when the tone arm reached a certain point close enough to the spindle, it would just lift up, pull itself out of the way, and the tall spindle would release another disc to fall onto the one already on the turntable. Then the tone arm would reposition itself onto the edge of this new disc. A record player with this feature would never have played this tiny record because it would've automatically lifted the tone arm and moved it back to the right if you tried to put it that close to the center.
I use a record player from the 60s or 70s (a general electric wildcat) to play 78s when I run out of phonograph needles and can't use my victrola. The record changer is nice but I wish there was a way to shut it off. I can't play little wonder records on it because of it.
Fully manual players seem to be able to reach as far as the spindle itself. I have an AT-LP-120 and it is able to track into the label, not that you would want to, but it can. If you have one, these records would certainly be playable.
I had a version, what did it in another way, when the tonearm moves much more, it shut down. So I could play the 8" records with smaller label without any problems.
The record player you're describing would have had a needle for modern LP micro groove and would not have played the record correctly anyway.
Reminds Me of the old Woolworths Records from what My late Mother told Me
I wonder where in the world I can find one of these? I'd love one for use on my Carry-ola Porto-Pick-up.
Hello, i please have a question. may you can help me?
I've found exactly the same gramophone HMV 101 in my grandmas cellar. I've cleaned it all and everything is working in my opinion, except the plates won't start turning 'round.
kind regards
You must wind it up with the handle and release the break that stops the platter from rotating
play that on the mikiphone... please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seems to be a demonstration or sample record.
Well😊😅
I swear, 78 record in 3 1/2 inces.
Is pretty weird ngl
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What's on the flip side?
Where we can get this disc?
35 seconds!!
Yeah, blink and you'd miss it!
Pre or pro Lew Chudd?
this is vynyl and shellac??
It's shellac
Prehistoric demo ta... record.
so its basicly a 45 before they invented it
but not a 45, so not at all really
I guess, the grammophone can't play it correctly.
not good sound