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Get it between 2025-09-09 to 2025-09-16. Additional 3 business days for provincial shipping.
Pendant is 1" x 1"
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, performed by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski, was the first 12-inch recording released by RCA Victor in 1931. Victor’s new vinyl-based Victrolac compound, which was used for this recording, provided a much quieter playing surface compared to the shellac typically used for 78s.
You guessed it, we have records in space. The Voyager Golden Records were included aboard both the Voyager I and Voyager II spacecraft that were launched into space in 1977. The records include sounds and images to introduce any would-be aliens to our civilization, here on earth.
There’s a lot of hefty record collections out there, but none more so than Brazillian businessman José Roberto Alves Freitas. At one point, his collection was said to be 8 million records strong.
Calling records “vinyl” is much like calling a fence “wood” or a surfboard “fiberglass.” Vinyl is the material the record is made of. And before vinyl was shellac and before shellac were gigantic cylinders made of zinc and glass. But that was way back in 1887.