Re: CHAT: postcodes

Padraic Brown wrote:

>--- "Douglas Koller, Latin & French"
><latinfrench@...> wrote:
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>>Kou (hoping that no one makes him feel ancient by
>>asking, "What's an LP?")
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>"Low Pitch" (as opposed to "High Pitch" or "Military
>Pitch"). You'd have to be pretty ancient indeed, or a
>player of old instruments, to even know. Low pitch won
>out in the end (actually, though, more of a middle
>pitch; making Western music just a little more
>homogenous.
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Actually, from what I gathered it's a Long Play. In Ancient History,
these were a kind of record, but these days they're a kind of CD with
more songs than singles, but fewer than albums I think. I also
understand that they don't exist in America; apparently when an
Australian LP was released in the US, they had to put more songs onto it
and release it as an album so as not to scare the Americans. (You also
get LP VHS tapes which are recorded at half speed so you can fit twice
as much on.)

So you don't need to be ancient to know what an LP is. And B-sides still
exist too, although with a less literal definition from that of before.

Disclaimer: I'm not much into purchasing music or listening to the
radio. Most information is based on stuff I think I've talked about with
my sister. Neither dictionary.com nor my revised 1st ed Macquarie
(Aust.) contain `long-play' or 'long-playing' in any context but that
referring to records. I've never been to America nor discussed CDs with
an American so I can't be certain.

Tristan

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