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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000065.txt from 2006/01

From: herb fawcett <herbgosia@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] re: tinny-ness of gramophones
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 02:21:19 -0500

We had one where you could use either the steel needle or one adapted from a
cactus needle. Wish I still had it. That and the ice box which used a block
of ice, and a wet rag covered the butter.
Herb

On 1/28/06 10:36 PM, "john vasko" <boanerges@-----.net> wrote:

> Keith,
> have you ever seen or listened to a real old Gramaphone (brand name),
> the kind one had to wind up, with the needle attached to a small
> diaphragm
> from which the sound emanated? I used to have one. It was somewhat
> tinny and false of tone.
> I'm sure you did not make your recording with such a device.
> John Vasko
>
> On Jan 28, 2006, at 7:11 PM, Keith Sklower wrote:
>
>> Though I agree with the overall sentiment of Shaw's poem,
>> the lines:
>>
>> }I have listened to music from a gramophone,
>> }It is somewhat tinny and false in tone.
>>
>> are fighting words to a recording engineer!
>>
>> I made a recording of a live chamber music concert a couple or 3 years
>> ago of 2 Oboe and English Horn music that was accurate enough that
>> Yvgeny Izotov gave a copy to his former teacher Ralph Gomberg,
>> and San Francisco Symphony English Hornist Julie Giaccobassi's husband
>> has been trying to persuade her to release it ...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Keith L. Sklower
>>
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