On 06/06/2012 01:38 PM, Don Tait ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> Very interesting. In the USSR, Melodiya issued some 7- and 8-inch 78 rpm
> microgroove records on their version of plastic of some kind. Not a shellac
> compound but with constant loud surface noise. (Does anyone know what the
> material was?)
>
> Don Tait
>

Melted down, recycled Bell records? :P (Actually, I haven't seen a Bell
in probably 30 years; I don't remember of those 7" microgroove 78s were
pressed in vinyl, or if they were styrene.)

Michael Shoshani