Cool Facts About Vinyl

12 inch records hold more music than 10 inch or 7 inch records.

Cool facts about vinyl.

Mass production of recorded music underwent another big change in 1930 when rca victor rolled out the first. Vinyl records facts history. Ten facts about vinyl records only a true vinyl geek will know the first vinyl record. This new technology extended playback time to nearly 22 minutes and was much quieter.

There is a national day devoted to vinyl records called national vinyl record day. Vinyl records come in every color including multi colored marbled records. Thirty three and a third. Modern vinyl records have existed for over half of a century and while they almost faded into obscurity the vinyl record revival is picking up steam every year.

Phonograph records were made from shellac which was noisy and didn t last very long. This post was updated april 2017. Recording and playing back sounds became feasible in 1877 with thomas alva edison s invention of the. The widest distribution in the universe.

It falls annually on august 12th. The term like a broken record doesn t actually refer to a broken record it refers to a scratched record. Records were not always made of vinyl. 10 interesting facts about vinyl records that you didn t know many people still collect and cherish old records facts that you might now know about this musical technology one of the most expensive records ever sold was by the velvet underground and it cost 25 000 there is a difference in sound between coloured and black vinyl.