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🧵 Nearly half of recorded history lives on fragile 78rpm discs. 🎙️🎶 From music & comedy to speeches & firsthand accounts of world events, these recordings shaped what future generations could know about the past. 📚 Read “On 78s” by George Blood in VANISHING CULTURE 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...

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I learned recently that the needles on modern record players don't pick up the entirety of the groove in 78s and that's partly why they sound as tinny as they do.

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