Re: [ARSCLIST] Fwd: [ARSCLIST] Westminster Lab Series

[David Lennick <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Further to Don's comments, I found on my shelves upstairs a copy of W-LAB 7019 
which I'd forgotten about, Pictures at an Exhibition (Rodzinski). The exact 
conditions Don describes re the jacket apply to this one..the front side of the 
cardboard sleeve is one with the plastic outer sleeve, although the back side 
of the jacket is fine (mottled black paper). Once again, the disc is near mint. 
Those rounded inner plastic sleeves Columbia was using at that time have 
survived better than most over a 50-year period (Columbia pressed Westminster 
at this point).

dl

Don Tait wrote:
>   Congratulations on finding that Westminster Lab LP in almost perfect 
> condition, David! I've seen a lot of them and I must say that what most impresses me 
> about what you wrote is that evidently the covers of the inside heavy 
> cardboard sleeve hadn't essentially liquified and adhered to the inside of the 
> plastic container bag. I've seen a lot of them with that problem. They've been a 
> gooey mess. In one or two cases I had no choice but to extract the record from 
> the container, put it in an anonymous sleeve, and throw the original packaging 
> away. It would be interesting to know what caused that problem: a chemical 
> reaction between the inner covers and the vinyl bag, temperature/humidity issues, 
> or what. 
>
>   With that said, those Lab Series LPs did indeed have fabulous mono sound 
> and that Petrouchka (Scherchen conducting) is a great recorded performance.
>
>   Don Tait
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> Will wonders never cease? I came across a Westminster Laboratory Series 
> LP today whose packaging was intact, the zipper worked (didn't jam at 
> the bottom), and the disc inside the plastic sleeve was in near mint 
> condition. Usually these things show up destroyed, especially since 
> folks would get fed up with the thick plastic outer container and get 
> rid of it, then find that the "album" was just a foldover with no place 
> to protect the disc. Even the pamphlet was there.  (W-LAB 7011, 
> Petrushka, if anyone cares.)
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> dl
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