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I have quite a few of them, from the late 1940s up until the 1990s. The 10" size is still occasionally used for novelty or promo reasons, the newest one I have is a Radiohead double album, from 1999. Sound quality is determined by the same factors as with LPs, they're just shorter.
There have also been numerous reissues of jazz records on the 10" size. If you go to a good record store in a major city, you will turn up tons of 10" LPs, in all musical genres. It never caught on like the 12" LP did, but it's also far from rare. Most decent automatic record players can sense the 10" size, and drop the needle at the correct place.
The 10" LP was also used in foreign countries, for example the USSR produced them, and even made some 33.3RPM record players whose maximum size is 10".
Edit: I removed reference to calling the 10" record an EP, I always thought it was known this way, but I did some reading about it and apparently I was wrong.
Last edited by maxhifi; 10-29-2018 at 01:10 PM.
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