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  • noun Plural form of shellac.

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Examples

  • When rating shellacs, we look at shine, of course, and at ease of application.

    Rick Horowitz: Session Not as Lame as All That Rick Horowitz 2010

  • When rating shellacs, we look at shine, of course, and at ease of application.

    Rick Horowitz: Session Not as Lame as All That Rick Horowitz 2010

  • Beneath a carpet of dust atop a bookshelf in the bedroom, I've got a portable turntable that will play 78s and a small luggage case full of naked shellacs.

    Foxtrots and Fandangos Slimbolala 2005

  • I began this retrospective, Volume XV of "The Welte Mignon Mystery" series, with those inscriptions Edvard Grieg made 17 April 1906 and here reproduced on the modern Steinway in stereo - such a tonic after the scratchy, well-nigh acoustically impossible shellacs he cut that had appeared on Pearl.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

  • I began this retrospective, Volume XV of "The Welte Mignon Mystery" series, with those inscriptions Edvard Grieg made 17 April 1906 and here reproduced on the modern Steinway in stereo - such a tonic after the scratchy, well-nigh acoustically impossible shellacs he cut that had appeared on Pearl.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

  • When rating shellacs, we look at shine, of course, and at ease of application.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Rick Horowitz 2010

  • Janos Scholz, cello -- inscribed the Bach work on Columbia shellacs in 1934, and they tended to slow down the tempo at the end of sides, the tempos of which had to be augmented to achieve clean side joins by editor Andrew Rose.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

  • That the digital remastering by Paul Baily at Re: Sound revived the original shellacs, we can hear in ten minutes of original, unedited recording from

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

  • The present recording, transferred by Mark Obert-Thorn, was cut 12-13 June 1928 on American Columbia shellacs as

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

  • The present recording, transferred by Mark Obert-Thorn, was cut 12-13 June 1928 on American Columbia shellacs as

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

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