Re: [ARSCLIST] Curious--was: well, this might <snip>

["Steven C. Barr(x)" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Andes, Donald" <Donald.Andes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> "Perhaps music isn't what it was, when we were who they are." 
> 
Well, back in my (much) younger days...somewhere around the year
dot...telephones only had one "ringtone"...and that was created
by a metal arm whacking a metal bell! However, you had to count
the "shorts" and "longs" in the ringing if you were on a party
line, to see if the call was yours (many people listened to all
of 'em...!).

And music came to you either over the radio or courtesy of a
"record" you bought for $1...usually on a 45, though 78's were
still being pressed. If there was a square dance, the music was
provided by real live musicians from a nearby town (who had
never made a record, and we unlikely to...). You could always
"record your own voice" at the State Fair, for fifty cents, and
then play it when you got home.

Once you bought a record, there was no way to make a copy of it.
A very few folks had radios which had built-in disc recorders,
and they could...and we knew there were such things as "tape
recorders," but none of us had ever seen one.

Yup, things were different then...

Steven C. Barr