Re: [ARSCLIST] How many 78's--was: National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) Study

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> On 15/08/06, steven c wrote:
>
> >> Steven, do you think you have more disks than Joe Bussard? Did I
> > understand you correctly that you
> >> have 40 THOUSAND unique 78's (ie no repeats)? Or, how much of that is
> > overlap?
> >>
> > My educated guess is that there were probably somewhere between
> > two and three million different 78rpm discs issued between
> > Berlier's 1889 efforts and the last music-library 78's (pressed
> > in the UK but extensively used in North America).
>
> Is that including all the world wide markets - India, Japan, Latin
> America etc?
>
No...that's strictly North America, as I have no idea where one might
find data for other lands (and very few non-North-American 78's, as well...)

Steven C. Barr