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I thought CDs were considered albums. "Record album" got shortened to "record", at least where I live.
CD is short for Compact Disc. Record is short for phonogramme record (UK) or phonograph record (USA).
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I thought CDs were considered albums. "Record album" got shortened to "record", at least where I live.
CD is short for Compact Disc. Record is short for phonogramme record (UK) or phonograph record (USA). some of my late grandfathers old 78s from HMV India say 'phonogram' interesting because Indian English spelling normally follows British even now. Discussing this with an axquaintance in Karachi who teached English for a living it seems this is another difference between two countries. On that side of border American spelling is preferred. I did wonder if that is at least partly BECAUSE India still leand toward British spelling.
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They became albums when a bunch of 78 rpm records were put together in a booklet in outer appearance much like a photo album. The 78s generally held one song per side. This wasn't sufficient capacity for a piece of classical music, say, Mozart's Requiem, so such a piece of music would have to be put on multiple disks which were stored together in an album. When the technology permitted the capacity of the recording disks to be increased to the point were a large piece of music could be put on one record the term album continued to refer to such a recording.
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When the technology permitted the capacity of the recording disks to be increased to the point were a large piece of music could be put on one record the term album continued to refer to such a recording. or sometimes(still) called an LP.
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Thanks, but...does anyone else find the term 'permanent pap Do y'all think that eventually the term "writing a paper", etc., will become obsolete? Sometime a little after people stop making films. And dialing the phone...
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They became albums when a bunch of 78 rpm records were put together in a booklet in outer appearance much like a photo album. Gosh, I didn't know that! Thank you! I inherited some victrola records lo these many years ago, but even they were all separate.
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I inherited some victrola records lo these many years ago, but even they were all separate. Typically they were only collected in albums when they were a coherent work, Mozart's Requiem, for example. There would some number of records, n/2, with side 1 and side n on one disk, side 2 and side n-1 on the next and so on up to side n/2 and side (n/2)+1 on the last. These would be placed on the record changer with side 1 as the top side of the bottom record and played till they got to side n/2, at which point the entire stack would be flipped and the last half of the piece would be played. You could shuffle the stack and simulate the shuffle option now available on most CD players.
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Which records ? All I can remember were some Strauss waltzes; whatever my great-aunt and -uncle had bought. The sound was very scratchy and tinny; I enjoyed turning the crank handle.
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I have bunches of 78rpm and 33's as well. Love them, play them
frequently.
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