Now, unless you're really something of a collector, it's safe to assume that any record player you might own only has two speed settings - 33 and 45 RPM. We say that because the old-fashion 78 RPM ...

Our series on how technology affects art continues with a report on how those old 78 RPM records set the stage for music today's recordings. When the compact disc was being developed nearly 30 years ...

African music traveled to the New World with slavery, only to return to Africa in the 1930’s and 40’s via 78 rpm phonograph records, broadcast by Radio Congo Belge in Léopoldville (now Kinshasha), ...

What is the difference between 78, 45, and 33 RPM records? Obviously most people would say the speed, which of course is true to a degree. But as [Techmoan] covers in a recent video, there’s a whole ...

With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...

The problem: what to do with old 78 rpm phonograph records. The solution: make them into fruit bowls by melting them into the desired shape over tin cans in a 200-degree oven. Leave the original ...

Lee Meine thinks the Third Street renaissance is just beginning, and he's getting in on street level. In June, he opened Third Street Hi-Fi at 164 E. Third St. His store doesn't have much sizzle or ...

Nonfiction: Vintage Records Do Not Sell At Any Price by Amanda Petrusich, (Scribner) The characters in “Do Not Sell At Any Price” are in a state of constant amazement — at the arcane world of rare 78 ...

Records and machines to play them on have been around for over 100 years. Mass-produced recorded music for the home began in the early 1900s with Thomas Edison's cylinder players. After a few short ...

Reader Gary Kampel motivated me to take on a project I’d been meaning to get to for years. That motivation took this form: My older sister shipped me a box of old double-sided 78 RPM shellac records ...

For millennia now, humanity has dreamed of alchemy — turning base metals to gold. For maybe a couple of months now, humanity has dreamed of turning a tortilla into a 78 RPM record. And now, one of ...

And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: January 10th, 1949, 67 years ago today ... the day RCA Victor unveiled a new breed of phonograph record -- the 45. Just seven inches across, with a ...