Hi, i really like vinyl records, i like the music more coming from a vinyl player. instead of a digital source, do you like vinyl?
Prior to world war II, the records were not Vinyl, they were made from shellac.
Thats interesting whats that? whats the sound like off shellac?
Shellac is secreated by female lac bugs, lac bugs come from India and Thailand.
Omg thats crazy so the records were natural :D i should look into it
It was used in some electrical applications because it has good insulation qualities and repels moisture. Shellac is pretty amazing, all from a bug!
Wow thats crazy, its strange that i havent heard anything about shellac all up until now
it seals out moisture. Phonograph and 78 rpm gramophone records were made of it until they were replaced by vinyl long-playing records from the 1950s onwards.
From the time it replaced oil and wax finishes in the 19th century, shellac was one of the dominant wood finishes in the western world until it was largely replaced by nitrocellulose lacquer in the 1920s and 1930s.
Etymology.
"Shellac" comes from "shell" and "lac", a calque of French "laque en écailles", "
whereas programmes in which the DJ plays commercially available music are only sampled and not kept entirely. Prior to any material being disposed of, the material is offered to the British Library Sound Archive.
The archive consists of a number of different formats including wax cylinders, numerous gramophone records made from both shellac and vinyl as well as numerous more recordings on tape, CD and on digital audio tape (DAT). The difficulty of these different formats is the availability of the machines required to play them; some of the vinyl