Before the cassette tape cd and mp3 player 45s were the perfect portable personal music medium.
What year did vinyl records stop being made.
Unlike the standard 10 inch 78 rpm record which could play about 3 1 2 minutes on one side the new lp could hold 15 plus minutes on one side of a 10 inch record and up to 25 minutes on one side of a 12 inch disc.
Recently i bought some old indian 78 rpm records which were made around 65 66.
The vinyl revival is the renewed interest and increased sales of vinyl records or gramophone records that has been taking place in the western world since about 2007.
During and after world war ii when shellac supplies were extremely limited some 78 rpm records were pressed in vinyl instead of shellac wax particularly the six minute 12 78 rpm records produced by v disc for distribution to.
Tapes were everywhere in those days.
When did they stop.
The analogue format made of polyvinyl chloride had been the main vehicle for the commercial distribution of pop music from the 1950s until the 1980s and 1990s when they were largely replaced by the compact disc cd.
Spinning at 33 rpm the new format could play up to 25 minutes per side.
When were the last produced.
It had co existed with the phonograph cylinder from the late 1880s and had effectively superseded it by around 1912.
So that makes me wonder if 78 rpm were made well in the 1970s.
This new record medium also had a much lower level of surface noise than did its older shellac cousin.
I d say vinyl was replaced by cassette as the dominant format somewhere around 84 85 or so.
Or are they still being made.
In the mid 2000s gradually records made of any material began to be called vinyl records or simply vinyl.
Tapes held the position for the next ten or so years with cds taking over maybe by 94.
Generally 78s are made of a brittle material which uses a shellac resin thus their other name is shellac records.
Also these new records were made of a vinyl compound rather than the easily breakable shellac of 78s.
An era that lasted 40 wonderful years.
And thus began the era of the 45s.
However columbia s big rival rca victor then produced the seven inch 45 rpm vinyl disc.
In 1948 the columbia company had perfected the 12 long playing vinyl disc.
In an email to spin united record s millar points out that a great deal of vinyl being made in the mid 90s was promotional vinyl that wasnt really meant for sale thus wouldn t have a.
I thought that around that time the 78 rpm were completely vanished and replaced by 33 45 rpm records.
The phonograph disc record was the primary medium used for music reproduction throughout the 20th century.
The last american commercially released 78 rpm singles appeared in 1959 however they were still made for children s records and older jukeboxes until 1964.
